//------------------------------// // The blood that stains the soul // Story: Fluttergeist // by DerpyBroadcastNetwork //------------------------------// 11 days have passed and Fluttershy is lying awake as her friends sleep. She has decided she's too scared to sleep, with or without that dream catcher. She quietly trotted out of the room avoiding Twilight. She wandered out the door in an attempt to get some night air, her eyes were tired and tears were flowing out from lack of sleep. Her friends had tried to get her to sleep but to no avail. She wandered the empty streets of Ponyville as she started doing 7 nights ago. The air was calm and quiet, the lights in the streets barely even lit her way, but something was calling for her, for the last couple nights she had ignored it, but now its temptation overwhelmed her as she trotted towards it. Suddenly there was a unicorn at the end of the path walking towards her. At first she paid it no mind but as he drew closer she began seeing his silver coat, closer still she noticed it was stained with blood. By this point Fluttershy just stood there as he got closer. She didn't seem to care anymore. "How come you're here" she asks. "You need to wake up" he yelled. Fluttershy opens her eyes to find she had collapsed on the street and she had nearly fallen into the sewage river underneath the streets. She continued on following the thing that was calling her it had felt like years have passed since she had left soon the unicorn appeared again. Fluttershy tried waking up but she found she couldn't, in fact it seemed she had lost her feeling of being tired. "Fluttershy!" Silver yelled rushing over to her. She squealed a little but then she remembered, he had just saved her. An odd feeling fell over her one that could not be described, as the unicorn ran to her. "Fluttershy" he says as he stops in front of her and she notices he is no longer bleeding. "What's going on" Fluttershy asks. "Why can't I wake up?" "Because, this isn't a dream" Silver says. Fluttershy reaches out and touches his face it feels a lot more distinctly like fur and skin than when she had touched him in her dreams. "Look behind you" says Silver. Fluttershy does and gasps as she sees her own body collapsed on the sidewalk a stream of blood flowing from its mouth. She screams louder than she ever has before but nothing seems to respond. "I am so sorry" Silver cries hugging the mare "I didn't mean to kill you". Fluttershy shocked looks over at her body. She feels his tears stain her fur as he cries. "Don't be so hard on yourself" she says as some blood flowed out of her mouth like it did on her real body and as she pushes him away. "I'm the reason your heart, well you know" he says ashamed. "Why did I have to follow you" he says. "Why did I have to scare you so badly" he says. "Why were you doing that stuff anyway" Fluttershy asks. Silver sighs and points around everywhere, there was not a single pony in sight not even dead ones. "Oh" Fluttershy says, rubbing her foreleg. "I didn't mean to sentence you to the same fate" he says downtrodden. Fluttershy looks at him seeing how depressed he is. "Hey, at least you have me now" Fluttershy says. Silver looks up at her, but just continues to walk away. Fluttershy flies in front of him. “It’s fine” she says “you didn’t do this on purpose” “What about your friends” he asks “won’t they miss you” “Yes” says Fluttershy, she sighs. “But there’s something you can still help me with” she says. Spike was in the middle of the crystal caverns munching on gems to his heart’s content. Fluttershy and Silver dust appeared in front of him. “Hey Fluttershy” he says with his mouth full “whose this guy” “This is Silver Dust” she says “Him” Spike yells. Fluttershy shushes him calming him down a bit “I came to tell you that you won’t see the ghost if you go to Raritys anymore” Fluttershy says “Oh cool” he says “why” Some blood trickles out of her mouth and she wipes it off. “I’m sure you’ll find out tomorrow” she says “just go back to Twilight”. "Goodbye" Fluttershy yells as she and Silver exit the dream. Rarity is in a large mansion showing off her designs to only the wealthiest of ponies. Fluttershy appears along with Silver dust. “Fluttershy” she says excitedly “you seem well” “Not exactly” Fluttershy says. “Oh...well, can you introduce me to your friend over there” she asks. “This is Silver dust” Fluttershy says. “You mean that guy who was dripping blood in my sink all day yesterday” Rarity says angrily. “Would you rather I bled on your carpet” he asked sarcastically. “I just wanted to let you know, that you’ll never see him or me again” Fluttershy says hugging her. They exit the dream just before Rarity can ask why and finally Twilight is the smartest pony in Equestria, when the 2 appear again. “Fluttershy, what are you doing here?” Twilight asks ignoring Silver. Fluttershy hugs Twilight. “I just wanted to say goodbye” she squeaks as she leaves the dream. “Look somewhere around main street in the morning" Silver says. Fluttershy goes around like this to all her friends being more and more saddened until morning rises. as Twilight was instructed she came around main street and Fluttershy started to cry a little as Twilight found her body. Silver put his hoof around her. "At least you got to say goodbye" he said "That's more than I ever got". Soon Rarity comes along and screams. Fluttershy trots over and looks down at her own body she sighs. "I'll get to see them again some day, right?" Fluttershy asks. "Not likely" Silver says. "Our souls are forced to wander, theirs most likely won't be" he said. "Why is mine" Fluttershy asks. "I don't know" he says "you need to figure your unfinished business out for yourself". Fluttershy sighs. "At least I'm not completely alone" she says. Silver manages to chuckle a bit. "Neither am I" he says. The 2 wander off away from Fluttershys friends never looking back.