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// Chapter 2: Competition 
// Story: Void of the Heart 
// by Lucario247 
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Chapter 2: Competition

Fluttershy was nervous.  Not like her usual nervousness but like a mix between shock and...something else. She couldn't describe it.  She never felt like this before. And that feeling only came when she looked at him.  She looked over at the chair across from her and saw Twilight staring at him also.  
" Figures." she thought.
  Twilight  had volunteered to watch the new "arrival" as well as Fluttershy did.  She knew that Twilight  had the same feelings for him.  She saw it at the party.  When the mystery colt showed up in that flash of light surrounded by those weird rings, Twilight was staring and blushing.  She claimed it was because she had never seen that kind of magic before, but Fluttershy could easily see through the fib.  She sighed and looked over at the colt in the hospital bed.  He had his eyes closed like he was dreaming about something fun.  He had a bright yellow coat with a great blue mane and a tail to match. His mane looked combed but had a sort of frazzled look to it, like he combed it and then shook his head. His hair was flipped to the side so it wouldn't be in his eyes.  He was a Pegasus like her.  "The feeling is coming back".  His tail was pointed at the end and had some bits of hair sticking out.  She looked down at his flank, she started blushing, and saw one of the strangest cutie marks.  It was a heart with an X through it. The heart was dark purple almost black.  The heart had weird swirling lines around it. Like the emptiness of the heart is sucking everything in that couldn't hold on. Like a black hole. Twilight taught her that.  Remembering her unicorn friend she looked at her chair and saw she got up and was examining the colt really closely, a little too close. 
"Uhm...what're you doing?".  
"If I'm going to figure out what kind of magic that was I need to get a closer look at the user, right?"
"You don't have to say that.  I saw how you looked at him at Pinkie's party."
She turned towards Fluttershy and gave her a glare. "Yeah well I saw the same look on you too."
"It's obvious only one of us can be his, um...you know, special somepony."
"Well you probably saw how he reacted when he saw us." Twilight said with a smirk.  Fluttershy would never forget that look.  He full blown blushed and gaped when he glanced at them in the back before he collapsed.  
" I think a deal is in order."
"Um if you don't mind me asking, what does that mean?"
"We will let him pick who he wants to be his fillyfriend."
Fluttershy's heart skipped a beat when Twilight said "fillyfriend".  
"Um, okay, it's a deal!" 
They shook hooves while glaring at each other.  The colt on the bed let out a soft groan and moved his arm accidentally touching Fluttershy's tail. 
"Eeeeeek!!!" Fluttershy squeaked and leaped five feet into the air grabbing the over hanging lamp.
"Well I guess we know who's going to win." Twilight said before the colt started to wake up.