//------------------------------// // First // Story: After Dusk // by Nolan_shy //------------------------------// My name is Fluttershy, and I'm not the same pony I used to be. I don’t appreciate the time that passes, and I fear what to come. I remember one thing I loved more in my life, more than anything: my son Dusk. If I can remember properly... Chapter 1 It wasn't a regular week in Ponyville, an odd weather pattern has been occurring. I, Fluttershy, was worried about what would happen to my babies out side in the forest. The great storm that is coming will leave them homeless, so I went over to see Rarity and Rainbow to see how they were preparing and if they could help. "Rainbow my dear, how will the weather be for the outdoor fashion show I have planned for Up Tight?" Asked Rarity. "Not too good, you might have had to cancel it if I wasn't so awesome and fast. It looks like the storm of the century to me coming up from the south. Nothing I can't handle though." Said Rainbow Dash. "Oh, hey Fluttershy. What are you doing here? “Hey guys, I was really scared about what would happen to my poor critters out in the woods during the storm. I was wondering if you could help me make them a shelter?" I asked confidently, the way I always am with my friends. "Sure thing, Rarity was just asking about the weather. She doesn't want to get her hooves muddy for her new fashion show." Rainbow told me. "The designer must always look their best when showing their latest line off." Rarity justified. Later on, Rainbow Dash and Apple Jack, my strongest and most athletic friends, were assembling a home for my animals when the storm came rushing in. Rainbow bursted onto the scene to fight off the storm, but it was futile. The high winds went in bursts and one caught Rainbow off guard and sent her hurling into Apple Jack. I couldn't take the pressure under the high winds with both of my friends unconscious, so I panicked and cried on the ground. I peaked around for a second and saw a little basket caught on a tree branch. I tried to focus, but all I could hear was my friend Pinkie Pie yelling avalanche. All of a sudden, a little hoof popped out of the basket: there was a filly inside! All fear was pushed aside; my caring instincts drove me to protect that child as if it were my own. I took it off the branch, and brought the basket away from the high winds and torrential downpour. It wouldn't take long for rainbow to get back up and fight off the storm to send it back. By that time, I had already locked myself and the basket, with the filly inside, in my hidden shed I use as a safe house during emergencies. Very soon afterwards, I brought the little fawn over to Sugarcube Corner to see if Pinkie could recognize any pony who may be the parents. She was unable match the little one with any pony. I also got Twilight to use a spell to see what the filly had seen in the last few days, and she learned that the pony had been abandoned by their birth ponies. "Well we have a foal with no parents to take care of it, any ideas Fluttershy?" Twilight asked. My heart throbbed to take the foal in, but I was afraid of the challenge and effects it would have on me and it, the small orange Pegasus with a sunset blue mane that will grow up and become a full stallion. "Twilight, I will take it in as my own, and will raise it well." I held the foal up and told him: “I'll always love you, and I will care for you until the day I die.”