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// Beginning of the End Part 1 
// Story: New Rules 
// by lightningstorm 
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*Authors Note: I apologize for how long it took to get this chapter out, a few months I think? Well I'll be working harder on getting chapter out now. Theres only one chapter left after this, and I hope you guys enjoy this one.*
Chapter 4: Beginning of the End

It was perfect.

Every bit went exactly as planned. As far as we could tell, there wasn’t a single flaw in our performance, and our audience was as captivated as ever.

I was shaking from fright when I first entered the half moon shaped stage. Hundreds of ponies ahead of me were staring in my direction intently. If I failed them I would be humiliated, but I guess having these powers gave me some sort of courage. Courage I have never felt in my life.

I stared down the audience, banishing any doubt I had in my mind. "I am ready. I can do this."

I started doing each trick just as we performed. The audience wasn’t too impressed at first, since we decided to start with some old ones. But not to worry.

After a few tricks, we tried out some ones we hadn’t done yet.  I heard the audience gasp and applaud and cheer, infatuated with our performance. After each and every trick, except for the last one, was complete, me and twilight stopped to catch our breath. Using our powers so much can easily take out lots of our energy, it was like a muscle. We don't want to strain it too much or it can damage us.

Thats when I looked over and saw Rainbow again. She looked me right in the eyes, smiling, and I knew she honestly enjoyed the show.

I felt a spark of friendship come back to life.

Too soon though, we were called back on stage. We started our final trick. We did everything by the mark, every little movement, every expression and sound, perfect.

Finally the curtains began to close in front of us, and we could rest. Twilight made her way over to the wall, and slumped over, trying to steady her heartbeat. 

For some reason I wasn’t as tired. I guess maybe I’m a bit more skilled with the powers, or maybe the adrenaline was still pumping.

I grabbed a glass of water from some nearby table and guzzled it down, before making my way back over to Twilight, with a glass for her too.

“I feel that went well.” I say, giving her a smile.

“Yeah, seemed about perfect to me, although it took a buck of alot out of me.” She looks up at me, managing a tired smile.

“I think rainbow liked it...” I sit next to her, handing her her glass.

“Thanks.” Twilight guzzles the water down and wipes her mouth “Yeah, I saw Rainbow too. She did seem to be enjoying it.”

Suddenly I heard the door open and a pony came galloping over to us. I look up wondering who it could be, and there stood Soarin.

“Great job! That was amazing!” He says to us, his face showing that he honestly loved it, the same look Rainbow had.

“Thanks Soarin.” Me and twilight say in unison, smiling up at him.

He sits down on my left, nuzzling me under the chin.

“I’m glad you liked it.” I say to him, giggling a bit.

Turning to face both me and Twilight he tells us “By the way, I’m throwing a part in celebration of your spectacular performance and it wouldn’t be right if the stars of the show weren’t there!”

Me and Twilight smile to each other and we both know we want to go. “We would love to go!” I tell Soarin, with a huge grin on my face, giving him a hug.

“Awesome, we can head over right now if you want, I told a few of the Wonderbolts to go ahead and get the party going!” He was obviously really happy about us attending, so we both quickly get up and join him in the flight to his house.


After exiting the stage I finally have a moment to enjoy the night. The tempeture is about perfect, not too hot and not too cold, and the stars are bright and twinkling above us. The moon is in a perfect crescent right in the middle of a ocean of purple night sky. All around us ponies are chattering about our show, big smiles on their faces. 

It makes me happy to see such a picture perfect night, I wish it could last this way forever. Yet I have a feeling in my stomach that it won’t.

Soarin flies upwards in a burst of speed, heading in the direction of his home. I am the first to follow, right by his side, using my powers to keep up, propelling myself forward. 

Twilight follows behind me, still a little shaky on her flying skills, but she manages.

Soarins house quickly comes into view over the horizon, a mansion sized cloud house with a yard also made of clouds surrounding it. I can see a pool directly behind the main building, and about twenty ponies socializing.

We land out by the pool, just in time to see a pony do an amazing cannon ball, the splash just barely missing us. Twilight spots Rainbow drinking some soda off by a snack filled table, and walks off torwards her.

I blush a bit, the thought of me and Soarin now being alone in my head.

“So umm, what would you like to do?” He looks at me, smiling a bit.

“Oh, uhh, whats that game over there?” I point to a beer pong table set up in the far left corner of his yard. Red cups are strategically set up over the surface.

“That? Thats cider pong. You drink a shot of cider and see if you can toss the ball into a cup.”

The game sounds interesting and fun, so I tell him I’d like to try and we head over.

At first I completely miss each of my shots, even with Soarins help. Then a idea hits me: why not use my powers?

I make every shot after that, even if I threw it far off, I would make the ball fly back around and land in a cup. 

I would bounce it in, throw it with my eyes closed, do it backwards, and even bounce it off my head and it would land in perfectly each time.

After a few times a audience began to crowd around and watch me, apparently thinking I was using natural skill and not powers. It felt good.

I made it in a few more times before I decided to give another pony a turn.  I walked off, sitting down on a bench, looking over the edge of Soarins yard and onto the world below. 

I see out of the corner of my eye, him sit down next to me. I slowly turn my head to him, blushing deeply as I do, looking into his eyes.

He smiles at me, looking me in the eyes back. I had never realized how amazing his eyes were....so...pure. I blush harder and look down a bit.

Then I feel it, his warm, gently hoof move my chin up so i’m looking him in the eyes once more.

Then he does it, he kisses me right there...and I loved it. It was the most amazing feeling ever... so amazing...I can’t even describe it!

My face heats up intensely from blush, and evidently his does too. This overwhelming feeling then overcomes me, like my stomach is about to melt into eternal happiness. I slowly lean in to kiss him once more.

Then I vomit. Those feelings of happiness were too much for my stomach that I vomited right there. On the bench, on the lawn, and on him.

I wish I had just dropped down dead on the spot. 

He stood up, jumping back a few feet from surprise. Then I begin to tear up. Why did I have to tear up!? First I vomit and now I’m acting like a baby!

He notices me tearing up and starts to walk over to me “Flutter, its okay...”. I look away, down at the lawn where I vomited and I begin to cry a bit.

I have never been so embarrassed.

Thats when I decide to go, I don’t know where, but I go. I take off into the sky as fast as I can pull myself with my powers, flying through the clouds miles away.

After about a hour of flying I stop. I can’t see anything around me except clouds, lots and lots of clouds. How could I have been so stupid to have gotten myself so hopelessly lost?

Tears begin to come out again, and a whimper escapes my lips, so I break down and cry, there on the spot.

After about ten minutes I hear the sounds of a pony calling my name, and as I look up hopeful to see Soarin or even Rainbow, I see Twilight floating there.

“What are you doing way out here?!” She cries over to me, trying to be louder than the thunder claps emitting from the clouds around us.

“I-Its nothing....” I look down, trying to hide my tears.

Twilight floats over to me and puts a hoof on my shoulder “Flutter, I saw what happened, and he wasn’t mad at you. Come back with me.” 

“DON”T TOUCH ME!” Suddenly a huge burst of anger goes through my body, and I can feel nothing but hate. I want to kill. I want to cause pain. I want blood and I want to hear screams. I want others to suffer as I have.

My whole life I've suffered. My father beat me, and I lost my mother when I was young. My siblings left me to live happy lives off in Canterlot, so I was alone. Big Mac left me too, and I lost Rarity, my best friend. Then finally something good comes my way, and this happens.

“Flutter, just calm down, please!” Twilights voice is filled with worry now, which just sends more hate into me. I don't want her sympathy.

“WHY?! YOUR LIFE IS SO PERFECT! YOU DON”T KNOW THE PAIN I SUFFER! YOU DON’T CARE!” A bright, light white suddenly explodes everywhere. 

All I hear is the crackle of lightning as I feel myself plummet downwards. The hate within dies away, and now all I feel is remorse. 

My body feels burnt, and the air smells of smoke. Then I smack into the ground.

My bones crack and a huge wave of pain shoots through my head, but I survive. I can see the blackened skin all over my body, smoke still emitting from them.

Then I look over, just long enough to see Twilights dead body, before passing out of conciousness. 
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Its been three months now. Three months since the accident with Twilight. 

Her funeral was nice, everypony in town attended, even I did, no matter how bad it hurt me. I stood over her grave after everypony else left, crying, begging for forgiveness. But I got no answer. 

I must've been there for hours, all emotion escaping me, all sense of anything, slowly dying away. Then I got struck from behind. The power of the hooves sending me flying into the ground.

I turned to see Rainbow. "How did she Die Fluttershy? How do you get struck by lighting on a night with no predicted thunderstorms? How did her body end up in town, miles from where the lightning strikes were seen?" There was an obvious fury in her eyes, a fiery hate, she knew I did it.

"R-rainbow I...I didn't mean to do this..."

"Is that supposed to fix this? Do you think this is some kind of joke? Twilight told me what happened with Angel, I know you killed her." I took a step back, but Rainbow tightly grabbed my arm. "This isn't some game! This was our friends life! You can't fix this!"

"Remember what Twilight said about the gods, Rainbow? How one would always turn evil? I guess that ones me..." For some reason the thought was comforting, the fact this was out of my power to decide if I killed or not, that it was destined to be.

Rainbow didn't accept that "No. You did this, not some god, y--" Thats when I took off, as fast as I could. I was miles away before she could react.

I flew straight home, flopping on my bed and crying myself to sleep. Then I had another dream.