//------------------------------// // Help on the Way: 3 // Story: Fire Mane's Changed Adventures: // by Ponyess //------------------------------// The hoofsteps stop, just behind the door. There is a brief moment of quiet, and the door open up to reveal a yellow pony with pink mane and tail. “Flutter Shy, is it? I'm Fiery Mane. I would need your help with a Pony I found in the forest, but I can't really do much for her on and of myself!” I blurted out. “Yes, I'm Flutter Shy. A Pony who would need my help, then let me see her. I'll see what I can do for her!” she responded. “She's right here behind me!” I pointed out, taking a step to the side and pushing my deeply wounded friend to the fore, in order for Flutter Shy to help her. “I think I have seen a Pony like this, a few years back. If she is your friend, I guess I could help her, Fiery, but only because you asked me to!” Flutter Shy pointed out with a strange tone to her voice, in part due to the confusion, as she saw a Changeling. “As you mention, I recall the tale of the 'Canterlot Wedding', and Chrystalis failed attempt at ruining it all. She would be wise, not trying anything the likes on me, even though I'm new at this as an Alicorn, and shouldn't be known among the ranks of the Changelings, more than anywhere else, for that matter. I think you'd be among the very first to actually see me. Maybe that's good!” I responded. “You can as well take her inside. I have everything we need in there anyway. I'd assume you can help me with a few things, as we go, even though I'd lead you through the process!” she pointed out. My new friend, the as of yet unnamed Changeling floated in through the door after me before Flutter Shy closed the door behind us. “I may be new to this magic, but I'd suppose it is preferable to hoof or mouth in this case!” I observed sombrely. “With the kinds of injuries your new friends have sustained, yes, I'd think you're right. The antiseptics are no fun to get in your mouth, and the bandages will be both cleaner, and more precisely applied, if you handle it with magic!” Flutter Shy pointed out. She moved around, helping me to pick up what she thought we were to need, in order to help my friends; bandages, antiseptics, cotton swabs, bottles of seine solution. “Time for the preparations, if you start with pouring up solution in the first bucket and open the package of cotton swabs, then drench the first, and you can get started, cleaning her up!” Flutter Shy pointed out in a manner that indicated she knew what she was doing. This was in part why I had tried to find her in the first place, her knowledge, expertise and experience in helping others. She had certainly helped wounded critters countless times, and it certainly did show now. Once she got into it, she knew what she was doing, and demanded obedience out of me. Unlike her, I'm not the element of kindness, though I certainly have my talents, I just haven't had much time to explore them. I can fly and know where my limits are to this point. I know about how much I can pull in weather duties. My talents as a Pegasus, these I have mapped out fairly well. On the scale in Cloudsdale, I'm fairly average, which I could live with. In Equestria, I guess I'm fairly good. Only in Ponyville would I find the impossible, the Pegassus by the name Rainbow Dash, she had been legendary for a great while by now. I guess I could count Flutter Shy among the better flyers, even if she never showed it, aside from the one time, when she helped Rainbow Dash with the hurricane to grant Cloudsdale more water. I guess her kindness never fail. Even if she was asked what seems impossible, that is. And here I barge in on her, asking her to help me with a Changeling. Even if I knew she is safe and friendly, but I'm the only pony to know it, at this time. Apparently it was linked to the new part of my talents. Something I had to get used to. “Will do!” I merely responded as I started out following her instructions, and it wasn't all that hard, and I noticed I grew better at it by the minute. “You're doing pretty good, Fiery!” Flutters pointed out as she watched me treating the Changeling where she lay. “Aside from your instructions, I guess I'm motivated to help her!” I responded. “Most of us are rather uncomfortable with a Changeling in the midst, after the latest confrontation!” Flutter Shy suggested. --- --- ---