Chapter 9 1/2: Trouble Brewing
Once again, I'm Floral Allure, and this morning, I found out how Shin and Fluttershy got together...
Or should I say, FlutterBAT?
I was walking down the streets of Ponyville when I heard everypony talking,
"I still feel really bad about what happened to Shin back at Dodge, those ponies are just crude!"
"About Shin, I heard he's running with that animal caretaker, Fluttershy."
"I know! I heard about it yesterday, I wonder how they met?"
I began to feel depressed that Shin was with another mare, but then that last statement left me thinking, how did Shin and Fluttershy meet? I thought he was in his house all night. This doesn't make sense...
"Floral! Over here!" Applejack shouted to me.
"Oh, hello Applejack, how's your morning?" I asked her.
"It was terrible." Applejack answered sternly. I could see the anger in her eyes, something must have happened. "Aren't ya gonna ask me why?"
"Um, why-"
"Because ah found out who's been sucking the life outta ma apples!" Applejack cut me off before I could finish, but I do wonder who was eating her apples, or, sucking the juice out of them, I mean.
"Who was it?" I asked, wondering if was going to cut me off again, but she didn't.
"I'll tell ya on the way." Applejack replied with determination in her voice, she sounds like she REALLY wants to catch who's been doing this, and judging by her attitude, I think she wants to beat the living tar out of whoever it is.
We rushed over to Sweet Apple Acres as fast as we could, Applejack was going a little faster than I was, but I could still keep up. The entire time, she explained to me who was draining her apples, and as unexpected as the Canterlot Wedding fiasco, she told me a good possibility about how Shin and Fluttershy met...
In her orchard.
We made it to the very middle of the apple orchard with the rest of Applejack's friends, and found two ponies, a stallion and a mare, asleep, around a bunch of dead apples...
It was Shin and Fluttershy.
"How did this happen?" I asked them.
"I think I can conclude that 'Flutterbat' wasn't completely gone." Twilight answered.
"Flutter...'bat'?" I tried to understand as I asked another question. Who's "Flutterbat"? Does Fluttershy have some kind of Multiple Personality Disorder? I had to know. Maybe Shin loved somepony besides Fluttershy that was... well, INSIDE Fluttershy, at least, her mind.
"I tried to convince a bunch of vampire fruit bats to stop eating the apples here," Twilight began to explain. "I used a spell on them all to make them hate apples, but their love for them was somehow transferred into Fluttershy, and when it did, she could hardly control herself around apples."
"Now I understand." But what I didn't understand was how they just ran into each other. That part still didn't make sense.
"Doesn't matter now," Applejack commented. "When they wake up, I'm gonna give Shin an earful! And after that, I'm gonna beat 'im as hard as ah possibly can!"
"No Applejack," Twilight said, trying to calm her down. "We need to know what's been going on the past couple of nights, when they've been here eating or whatever they were doing." Twilight was looking down just before she finished talking, there was writing on the ground.
"And after that, I can beat 'im up, right?" Applejack asked, anxious to attack Shin.
"I get to beat him next!" Rainbow Dash stated, with a burning desire to fight in her eyes.
Twilight sighed. We all jumped when we heard moaning and groaning out of nowhere, Shin and Fluttershy were waking up.
"They're coming to!" Twilight declared.
To Be Continued...