Circles in the dark
Fluttershy!
There it was again, like somepony calling me from the distance, yet all I see its darkness with a feint light glowing in the distance, and now is this incessant beep that’s keep bothering me, like the buzz of a fly when I am trying to relax, I wonder, why it won’t stop and let me sleep.
“She is waking up, give her some space” waking up? I was just trying to sleep, i feel so tired. Well since they are not going to let me sleep let’s get up then.
Flutter shy opened her eyes only to be merciless blinded by the lights of the room.” Oh girls, what are you doing this early on my bedroom…….. Where am I? Actually, if you don’t mind saying “she said while covering her eyes with her hoof.
“Fluttershy! Weweresoworriedaboutyou, whathappened? andwhatswiththgreengoo-ughhmm” Pinkie’s stream of words was cut off by a hoof before she could rain on Fluttershy all the questions that were begging to be answered.
“Pinkie! Please, let her rest, we brought you to the Ponyville Hospital, I am sorry, but we got to know, why you were on that shape?, when we went looking for you to zecora’s, she said you never made it there” Twilight asked she knew that Fluttershy would be scared about her experience, but from the wounds on her body it was clear that, it was a miracle that she came out alive in the first place. She could not imagine her life with one of her friends missing, not after what happened to him.
“Girls, I can’t remember, I am sorry” Fluttershy hanged her head low, she could only piece fragments, but not any particular helping memory, she hated when she couldn’t help her friends and in their face was clear the sleep deprivation. “How much time has passed?” with concern about her animals.
“About three days, don’t worry, Rainbowdash and Rarity have taken turns in looking after your animals, even Big Mac helped a little” Twilight knew that Fluttershy, would have a heart attack if her animals didn’t received any care during her absence.
“Don’t worry Fluttershy, we got your back” said Rainbowdash trying to reassure her friend, it wasn’t easy to deal with all her animals, but somehow they manage to get Angel to keep them in check, “poor fellah, that bunny was worried sick about you, but he decided to make sure the other animals were tended and in care before you returned” that statement filled Fluttershy with pride and gratitude for the bunny, sure he may sometimes be a hoofull, but when she wasn’t around he always tried to keep the place clean.
“Thank you Rainbow, Rarity, I am sorry for troubling you with this, I don’t know what I would have done without you” she knew her friends would help her, even if she hated troubling them, yet the gratitude she felt feel her with happiness.
“Don’t worry darling, it wasn’t a problem at all, let’s hope that you recover soon” Rarity said while hugging Fluttershy, just as nurse Redheart entered the room.
“It’s time girls, you must let Fluttershy rest for the night, and you can come back in the morning” the nurse said while checking her pulse and temperature.
“Goodbye girls, and thank you for visiting me” after giving her goodbyes, she then closed her eyes and let the sleep slowly began to overtake her.
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The leaves where falling with growls at the distance, the green vines crept through the walls like tendrils urging for blood. Fluttershy was running in a maze while being stalked by the soulless eyes of a stone, strings of light where cutting everything around her while the vines tried to eviscerate her.
She was afraid, “where am I” a thought that was all too familiar “last I remember I was on a hospital bed, why I was on that bed on the first place, why this vines are chasing me, I just don’t understand” she was getting slower, it almost felt like running through water, yet the vines never loose speed, never faltered no matter how many times it was cut by the green strings of light, every sound it maid while crept against the dungeon’s wall was like a predator that has been deprived for food for days, which longed the moment when it could swim in a river of blood, her blood.
Her lungs burned and there was the familiar feeling of a leg starting to cramp, her steps where more and more uncoordinated, in any minute she would fell and her death sentence would be signed.
Then the halls of the dungeon where enveloped in a blinding green light, burning away every vine and shade alike, and at the end of the hall Fluttershy saw a black shape with a circle of strange symbols made of light in its left forehoof, and a totem also made of light with symbols at its right hoof, staring at her with those ever penetrating green glowing eyes.
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Fluttershy woke up startled, she was soaked in sweat, and her heart was trying to rip a hole through her ribcage.
“What Happened? Why I never reached Zecora’s hut? Why I spend three days on a hospital’s bed? I can’t remember what happened and why my wing it’s hurting” she asked to herself, while inspecting her bandaged wing “my wing, it was hurt, and covered in some green goo” she thought just as she remembered all the events that led to this moment, the Timberwolf, the Gargoyle, the vines, and the creature of the green glowing eyes, the sickly green she saw on the day of the invasion of Canterlot.
“The Changelings” the realization struck her, like an arrow “why was a changeling in the Everfree fore….”.
“What do you mean by changeling on the Everfree Forest?”
“Eeeeeeeep, Twilight? What are you doing here? If you don’t mind saying that is” Fluttershy said, while in a futile attempt to hide her face with her hooves “I remembered what happened in the Forest”.
“Alright let me get our friends first” Twilight said as she went teleported herself, after a minute later, all the elements where on Fluttershy’s room.
Fluttershy breathed in and started telling what happened on her stroll through the woods.
After she finished, the room was enveloped in a deafening silence, Fluttershy tried to shrink herself and burry her head on her shoulders, the looks of horror on her friend’s face was telling a lot, especially when she told on how the vines where planning to finish her.
“You could have been killed!!! Not once but three times?” Rainbowdash and Twilight shouted at the same time, earning a disapproval glare from nurse Redheart “and this Changeling, you only saw its eyes?” twilight asked at more normal voice, but it was clear as crystal that she was upset.
“Well before I found you I could see it more clearly, it was still dark but I could see some kind of light circle on its left hoof, with weird symbols going around it.
“a circle with symbols, sounds a lot like rune magic, but there hasn’t been many records on that type of magic, since there are few ponies that could cast it, but according to them to cast it you would need a surface of some kind and the light beams don’t make any sense” Twilight thought out loud while trying to remember the book in which she read that.
“That’s not important twilight right now, we’re glad that you’re not kickin the bucket” Applejack said while hugging Fluttershy, at these all the elements when to hug her.
“Applejack is right, and I am glad that Fluttershy is here with us, alright I am going to send my notes to the princess, I will be right back” she said as she went to the Postal service.
“Twilight wait!!!” Twilight turned around at the words of Rainbowdash “let me get them to the princesses for you, yesterday one of their mailmares quitted, and I am working on her route as a part-time job” Rainbowdash said a little sad , but Twilight decided that she would ask another time.
“Alright, thanks a lot rainbow dash for your help, I will see you when you get back” Twilight said as she watched rainbow flying towards canterlot.