//------------------------------// // Fluttershy's dissappearance // Story: Secret of the Silver Dragon // by The Psychopath //------------------------------// Twilight galopped as fast as she could to reach the impact point of the dragon's descent to the ground. Upon arrival, she saw that it had fallen in front of Fluttershy's house, and that a massive crater now sat where the front yard used to be. Rainbow Dash was flying above the crater as the creature stayed in it. "Who do you think you are? You almost killed me and the others. You think I'll let that pass?" The dragon just stood back up and wiped the dust off of it's scales. It stared at Rainbow Dash very plainly, and it didn't seem to care about her assault on it. It was about to move, but Rainbow Dash slammed into it again, but, this time, with less speed. The lack of speed is what caused the fiesty pegasus to bounce off the dragon, and to see it laughing at her attempts to hurt it. The voice wasn't at all deep, nor was it too high-pitched. It was...normal. Twilight just stared at it as the dragon continued to laugh at Rainbow Dash who was already starting to tire. She took this opportunity to sneak into Fluttershy's house and see if she was alright. "Alright Spike. Help me look for Fluttershy." "Okay, but she isn't exactly the best hider." They both searched high and low as to find some clues to her location. Surprisingly, they had both ended up in her room, only to find that the place was singed black and that Angel was lying down on the bed. "Oh no!" yelled Twilight. She ran to the bunny to help it up. The poor thing was...Twilight dared not think about it. Angel was gone, and she couldn't do anything about it. She levitated the poor creature's body as Spike just stood in the room with shock at the charred remains of the place. Was even Fluttershy... Exiting the "treehouse", Twilight saw the dragon rubbing Rainbow Dash's mane against her consent. She was panting on the ground and using what was left of her strength to swipe the dragon's hand off of her everytime it touched her mane. "Stop...Doing...That..." she panted. The dragon ignored her and continued with a large smile on it's face. Rainbow caught glimpse of the limp body of Angel, as he was placed gently on the floor. Rainbow stood up and walked slowly towards Twilight, who looked horrified and saddenned at the same time. The smile etched upon the silver creature's face faded away almost immediately as it saw the bunny. "What happenned to him?" "I don't know. Spike and I went into Fluttershy's house to see how she was after you smashed into that thing and landed in front of her house." "Well, I had to teach him a lesson." "I think he just found you hilarious." "*sigh* How about we deal with Angel first? A decent burial would be good." "....How are we going to tell Fluttershy when she gets back? What?" The dragon looked apologetic in a manner and move RD out of the way. "Hey! What are you doing? Leave him alone. No!" yelled RD. The dragon pushed Twilight away and slammed it's left arm on the fluffy critter. The silver creature's left arm started to glow in a blinding amount of light. What the two ponies didn't see, as they shielded their faces, was the appearance of a robed character behind the dragon. It seemed to tip a balance of something, and the light quickly faded. The dragon stopped, got up, and stepped back. The two mares stared at it, and they then saw Angel twitch and cough as he got back up. Twilight and Rainbow Dash couldn't help but stare in awww at this improbability. "But...But that's impossible! Life and death can't be controlled! How did he even do that?!" "I know that it's shocking Twilight, but shouldn't we be, I don't know, tending to him?" "You're right. That's more important right now." The two ponies grabbed a weak Angel and placed him on one of Fluttershy's many couches. He tried to tell them something, but he just couldn't communicate like he should have been able to. The visitor followed them inside while avoiding the low level of the door entrance. The two mares ignored him, but he poked Twilight's back to show her something. He had his right hand out with one of the "fingers" up. He was showing the number one. He clasped his hand shut and then showed the number zero. The lavender pony was confused. "What? What's that supposed to mean?" "..." "You are really annoying. Why won't you talk?" "..." "UGH!" As Twilight complained, Spike ran back downstairs with a piece of charred bed sheet. "Hey Twi, maybe you could check this out and we could see what exactly happenned to Fluttershy." "That's actually a good idea Spike. That's why you're my number one assistant. Could you do me one more favor?" "What?" "Could you get Angel here some water?" "What for? Isn't he de-" Twilight cut him off as she showed him Angel, who was now sleeping on the couch with a small cover over him. "But? How? I thought?" "HE revived him by someway that I've never seen before." Twilight said as she pointed towards the hulking behemoth. "Woah...cool! How'd you do it?" "..." "He won't talk to you Spike. I think he wants trust or something." "That's wie-HEY! Let go of my arm! OOMF!" The dragon had grabbed hold of the arm Spike was using to hold the charred textile. Rainbow Dash had soun around with a glare in her eyes and was about to attack the dragon until Twilight stopped her. "What are you doing?! Let go of me. He tried to attack Spike." "Shhh. Look. Whats he doing?" The dragon had his right arm hovering above the piece of tissue. His right hand was surrounded by a dark aura that vibrated with every movement. He clutched the cloth and moved outside. The two mares followed him, while Spike was told to stay behind in the house. Spike complained and mumbled, but did as told. He still went to a window to see what was happening. "What do you think he's doing?" asked RD. "I don't know. Maybe he's trying to find Fluttershy." CRACK "What was that?" yelped RD. The dragon seemed to react to something, and he started to become surrounded by both a black and white aura. While the left sight ondulated with a calm and serene white aura, the left side spike and exploded in a dark fury. The dragon looked at the forest it's pupils had shrunk. It was now showing it's imprseeive set of spiked teeth. "Quick! Grab his tail." whispered RD. "Are you crazy? I'm not going to grab his tail." "I don't think you have a choice. Look up." "Why...oh." Dark clouds had started to swirl right above the dragon's position. "It's now or never Twilight. Either we grab his tail and get dragged to wherever he's going to go, or we lose him and may never see Fluttershy again." "Well...I prefer the choice with Fluttershy. I just hope you're right, and he's really going to get her." They both discreetly grabbed the dragon's tail, obly to have to cover their ears after it screamed in an ear-piercing yell: "DEEEEEEEEMOOOOOOOOOOONS!" "I guess that answers your question Twilight." "Just keep yourself on his tail. He might be calling the culprits of her dissappearance like that. "Well, we'll see. WOAH!" The dragon jet off into the woods, plowing through tree, hill, and boulder alike. While Twilight was absolutely terrified, Rainbow Dash was having fun. This thing was very fast on land. She definately wanted to try and race it in the air when it went full speed. Everything was flinging by too fast for them to manage to distinguish anything, but they came to an abrupt stop. Instead of being flung far away, the mares stayed hooked onto the dragons tail. "Ommf!" they both yelled as they let go of the tail. "That was totally supercool. Let's do that again!" "What? What's wrong with you? We're here for Flu-" Twilight was cut short as she saw strnge ponies that seemed...out of place. They had...features that no normal pony had, and she dared not try and describe them, but they had Fluttershy in the middle of a rune. There was some sort of ritual going on, and they were nearly done. Until they could drop whatever was in some pot one of them was holding, the dragon blasted the thing into oblivon with one of it's dark beams. The beam stayed in the air, until it spread out and grabbed the five ponies, then lift them into the air. They struggled to get out of their situation as they stared at the creature walk casually towards Fluttershy, pick her up and hold her gently in his left arm. The dragon walked away from the scene until Rainbow Dash stopped him. "Hey, what about them?" "Ahhh yes...the demons...I forgot." "So you CAN talk!" exclamated Twilight. "Let's see how you stupid demons deal with a dark funnel." A strong aura envelopped the whole area that the ritual was being performed in, and a gigantic tornado of darkness formed. It stretched WAY past the forest tops and a writhing screaming could be heard. The dragon stopped the funnel and reabsorbed the darkness. Nothing was left, not even the "demons". "I believe this is Fluttershy?" "Y-yes." stuttered RD. "That was incredible. You must be a powrful magician." "Nope. It's not magic." he said, a wide grin on his face. "Grab hold of me, I'll teleport us back to that tree house thing of her's." Although Twilight already knew how to teleport, she was curious at what it was like to experience this creature's version of this ability. The two mares grabbed hold, and with an exhale, they were teleported back to Fluttershy's house. Fluttershy was taken care of first. It would seem that she had some sort of light shade of darkness within her, that the silver being extracted from her body and absorbed. He had alot of explaining to do.