Note: if you do not read past this chapter, you will not like it. I promise that it ends nicely, but don't trust your first impressions on this book. I do not welcome anyone that will not read past this chapter and ask that you not read this book at all if you are not going to read that far.
Fluttershy crawled into her cottage. She had thought that her days of being bullied were over. After several attempts on her, Dumbbell had successfully crushed her unconquerable soul. Closing the door behind her, Fluttershy turned to her animal friends: all eagerly waiting for her to tell them about her day.
Fluttershy couldn’t stand to look at them. She couldn’t stand the thought of having to live with this another day. She ascended the stairs to her room. The remaining animals at the bottom of the stairs longed for her to stop being so sad. Each of them took turns pounding on her door and trying to cheer her up. Several squirrels brought flowers. Fluttershy refused to open the doors. There was not a thing in the world that could cheer her up.
Fluttershy went to the window: leaning her feet out of it before slumping to the side and falling a few feet to the ground. She was desperate. After too many encounters, Fluttershy had found the only option she could.
Several minutes into her short walk, Fluttershy saw few friends. It was late. There shouldn’t be anypony out at this time. Maybe Hooves and Dumbbell were out. They loved to torture her. They loved to see her hurt on the inside. Fluttershy crossed the bridge to the northern side of Ponyville thinking over all that had been in her life. She had met Rainbow Dash, but not even she could take away what pain the two pegasi had given her. Dumbbell had often told her she was ugly and Hooves never stopped making fun of her for being a weak flyer. Fluttershy’s pain was beyond the point of redemption. Even as she passed Sugarcube Corner, she started to cry. Pinkie would not stand for her frowning. Fluttershy just felt worse about it. The matter that she was sad when her friends all wanted her to be happy guilted her.
She started trotting faster. Her destination seemed even nicer to her, now. How could she forgive her school bullies? They weren’t sorry now. She was surprised they even found her. Why were they looking for her?
“They hate you.” The words formed in the back of her mind and echoed throughout the whole of her imagination.
“They hate me,” Fluttershy whispered to herself. The pain of the words coming out subsided and a tear shed from her cheek.
Her destination was soon approaching. She would be there soon. She would be ready for it to take her. The pain would be gone. She just had to walk past the library. The gravity of walking past the dwelling place of her best friend struck her. It hurt so badly. She just wanted to have it all come to an end.
Hurriedly, Fluttershy walked past it before running headfirst into a less familiar face.
“Oh. Hi, Kevin,” muttered Fluttershy after she bounced off of his white coat.
“Fluttershy, is there something wrong?” Kevin asked, noticing all of the tears and her dark expression.
“There...there’s nothing.” Fluttershy said hoping that he would he would stop asking.
“There’s something,” Kevin told her, “you can tell me, Fluttershy, you’re my friend, I love you.”
Fluttershy hadn’t considered that she had friends that loved her. After some encounters with him, Fluttershy didn’t want to talk, now. She didn’t have to. She broke into tears.
She burnt with the pain of all of the words that her school bullies had thrown at her. Fluttershy, very sad, attempted to cover up her previous intentions.
“Fluttershy,” Kevin exclaimed, “Come here.” He told her so as he embraced her. Fluttershy pressed against him as he choked on his own tears.
Fluttershy barely managed her way through the hug. She trembled and cried the whole time. Kevin still held her close.
This was the final straw. No regrets now. Fluttershy had feelings for him and the one stallion that she found most caring and most perfect for her was already attracted to somepony else. He tortured her with a hug. That was all she could have. It wasn’t that he could love her any more than that.
Kevin gave up the hug as Fluttershy darted away from him.
“Fluttershy, where are you going?’ Kevin begged as she sprinted towards the well at the edge of the Everfree Forest.
Tears fell from Fluttershy’s face. She screamed for the destination.
“Fluttershy!” Kevin cried. Twilight had warned Kevin that the well was empty. There was no water at the bottom. That only meant one thing through all of the nonsense.
Kevin looked away as Fluttershy brought herself to the edge and bent herself far over.
Kevin ran to Twilight’s library for help. Kevin still couldn’t fly. There was no use in him trying anything unless he wanted the same fate as Fluttershy. It was too late. Fluttershy’s body was drawn from the well the day after that.
The funeral began days after. The outside foyer was overflowing with stallions and mares of all sorts. Among the crowd was Dumbbell and Hooves. At one point, there could be seen a stallion who approached them with a combined air of fury and sadness, grumbled a few harsh words to them, and whisked away as if he were never there.
Everypony cried. Applejack cried for her pal. Rainbow Dash cried for her bud. Rarity cried for her confidant. Pinkie cried for her friend. Kevin cried for his greatest friend. Twilight weeped for an eternity. The congregation couldn’t manage a word as the whole of Equestria watched the casket be brought down six feet.
Twilight cried as she brought all of her friends into her house. Beyond reasoning, this was truly the worst thing to ever happen to any of the mane six. Each pony walked away with a small share of the poor pony’s limited wealth. It did nothing to heal the holes in their hearts. There was nothing that could replace the holes in their hearts. Kevin had lost a part of his big heart. Fluttershy had been lost to the darkness of the souls of evil.
Kevin woke up from a mild sleep. He would have no real sleep, now. Fluttershy was gone. There was absolutely no way he would ever sleep the same way again.
Kevin looked out the window at the sky. It was still nighttime. The stars flickered. Somewhere in all that time and all that space out there: there’s an Earth. Kevin came from that Earth. There had to be some way that in this the worst of all situations, Fluttershy could be saved. That even though she was gone that she could still remain on this Earth with her rightful friends forever.
A light shone from afar. Kevin shielded his face from the great light in the midst of the darkness. A small ray of hope in the purity of evil. Kevin squinted so that he could make out the carrier of this great light.
It was Scootaloo: the small flightless filly. Fluttershy was a flightless filly, Kevin thought to himself. That was the idea came a voice from the back of Kevin’s mind. Kevin thought again. There were many strange outbursts like this from Kevin’s mind. Most of them were just random thoughts that kept him entertained, but this one was different. This one meant something and he knew it.
Kevin ran downstairs and awakened the sleeping alicorn. Twilight jerked awake as her door slammed open. Kevin stood in its place. Twi turned to see if Spike was still asleep which he was. That dragon could sleep through just about anything. Twilight’s head turned back to Kevin: who now had a smile on his face. He had an epiphany. He was going to save Fluttershy.