//------------------------------// // Chapter Three: Where is Applejack? // Story: Flutter Wolf // by GildaTheGriffon //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and "Dead." she said. Everyone gasped. "They were all bitten. The sharpness of the teeth of the monster must be too sharp so with one bite it destroyed them all. And flew away." Everyone gasped and started to panic. Rarity fainted and Applejack was trying to help her. Twilight came to front by shivering a little and said "Applejack you help Rarity and follow us back, Pinkie Pie we will check some more clues in Ponyville, and Rainbow Dash because you are the only pegasi here, search a flying creature and it would be easier to notice from a top view...". Rainbow Dash nodded and turned back and got ready to fly but than she suddenly stopped and turned back... With a little unsure voice she said "How will we going to meet up, if one of us see something." Suddenly Pinkie Pie laughed and said "Of course, with my party confetti silly.". I just designed it. When it blows up it will make a huge rainbow firework and which we will notice and come towards to the pony who needs help or who find out something! Here I will give you all one. Twilight as we will be together i will keep just one for us". Pinkie continued and Twilight nodded. "Great idea Pinkie, oh shoot, she just found the right time to faint. Don't worry sugar cubes i will get them back to our houses, don't worry." said Applejack with a little tired voice. After they all got seperate with a little try and poke Applejack achieves to wake Rarity up. "Wow, I expected you will resist more, that is good..." said Applejack with a little smile. Rarity with blinking her eyes "Where are the rest of the ponies?" she asked and stood up. "We got seperate, Rainbow Dash will be searching from clouds and Twilight and Pinkie Pie will be searching them in Ponyville, so sugarcube, we have the best task ever! Bringing all these stuff back to all our homes." said Applejack and rolled her eyes. "My blankets, oh dear! They are all muddy! Who left them here!?" asked Rarity after a sudden huge gasp she created. "We definetly need to rush to our houses because these darlings needs detergent and water for sure!" They both achieved to pack up and started their way back to Ponyville. It was so hot, and with all four legs working, which is not helping bodies to rest, both Applejack and Rarity decided to take a little break and sat near a tree... "It is so suprising to not to have a forest fire under this weather circumstances." said Rarity while watching Applejack wiping the tears on her forehead. "Whew lucky me, i got my apples with me. Juicy and fresh, and though we are out of water they can help us a little, right sugarcube?". Rarity didn't listen, she was struggling to sit on a mud. "Such a dilemma, i dont have any energy to walk, but i can't sit on this mud! Ugh!". Suprisingly Rarity dropped herself to the mud pool and let it go. Applejack after gazing two minutes to Rarity who was laying in mud she shivered and got two apples from her backpack and gave one to Rarity. While they were about to finish their apples, one of them heard a bush sound! Than something or someone stepped on a branch. Some buzz sound was coming from somewhere. They came closer to each other and waited in silent to let the creature go its way. Unfortunately, it was coming towards them... The sound became more and more clear after it got more and more closer. "Is that... A growl?" whispered Rarity to Applejack. Applejack shrugged. Than the growl stopped. "Nah, maybe a dog or a turtle was passing through. No big deal... Let's continue our way. Did you get your energy back? I can give you another apple if you want?". Rarity still focused on the sound that came from bushes said "No, thank you Applejack! You are right come on let's return!". They got their packs up but with a sudden roar a giant yellow creature jumped out from bushes and ran towards them. Rarity and Applejack both screamed and started to run. The creature, it was a wolf! With three butterflies on the butt. Was that Fluttershy? What happened to her? With those two questions in mind both of them were trying to survive! "Pinkie Pie's party confetti! Use it! Hurry Applejack!" . Applejack noded and tried to reach to the confetti which was in her backpack and when she reached and took it out from the back pack she suddenly bumped into a tree and fainted... The confetti was broken too. Rarity was screaming "H-HELP! AN-ANY PONY PLEASE HELP!" and she saw the wolf coming towards Applejack, and she was sniffing her. With a sudden move, Rarity, to save her friend, threw a branch onto the head of Flutterwolf and than she started to run. The wolf was coming after her. It was faster and Rarity, who was so tired and struggling to move her legs tried to teleport to somewhere else with her horn but it was too late. She just stumbled to a wood and fell. Flutterwolf catched and grabbed her. Started to bite and chew everyplace of her... A pure white pony was now the pony in red... Rarity, with a last breath of hers said "Flutterwolf..." and gave her life away. With blood coming out from her teeth and mouth the creature turned back, and realised a orange pony who was runing... The wolf howled and started to run after Applejack. The orange pony was trying her best, even running better than the ones she did on rodeo battles. Soon, she heard another confetti coming from a close place! "Pinkie Pie!" she said. Applejack turned her way to the place where the sound came from. She just ran and ran, after half an hour running, and a little scared and hopeless Applejack saw a hutt a little bit far. "Zecora!" she said with a happy voice. It was getting darker. The wolf was not chasing her anymore. She decided to visit Zecora and spend the night there. However, the hutt was empty. She was so tired and decided to take a rest. Though she was a little worried about the emergency confetti, she did not know where to go... She decided to take a rest on Zecora's bed but after couple of minutes with a scream she woke up! It was not coming that far away and she rushed to outside. Minutes passed... Maybe hours... She did not even know what was the time. Her steps got slower. Than a little far away between couple of trees Applejack noticed two ponies. A purple and a pink one... Her friends. She took her step and she said "TWILIGHT! PINKIE!" and than she noticed she was not that close to them so she started running to them. She ran a little and noticed the dead body of Zecora's and got shocked. She was about to scream and call their names again but she even could not move her legs and when she started with a roar coming from bushes the yellow wolf came out and jumped over Applejack. Twilight looked back and noticed the creature and Applejack and casted a quick pushing spell which made Flutterwolf run. However it was too late for Applejack. She was bitten from her neck. With a tear coming from an eye, and some blood coming from mouth, she saw Pinkie and Twilight looking at her and her last words were "I love you, sugarcubes...". Rainbow Dash finally saw Twilight and Pinkie in this huge forest and landed near them. When she saw Applejack's and Zecora's dead bodies she started to cry even more... She looked at her only two left friends. She said "Rarity... She died too...". On this hot day, finally after a blood red sun, with moon the weather was crying with the tree ponies too. They did not know what to do, how to bury their friends, how to imagine forward. It was so hard for them. Twilight took her friends back to the hutt and decided to pass the night in there. She locked the door and the windows. "From now on.." Twilight beginned. She wiped her tears and continued her speech looking to Pinkie Pie. "Me, you and Rainbow Dash, we will never get seperate. We will sleep under the same roof, we will do our job in same place, and we will walk together. When we stick together we are more powerful..." Twilight said. "I made a terrible mistake by getting us seperate..." Twilight indicated and started to cry more. Rainbow Dash flew near her and hugged her. Pinkie Pie came near her too. "It was not your fault." said Pinkie Pie. While watching Rainbow Dash hugging, she hugged them all and they made a group hug. With tears coming from all six eyes they decided to sleep but none of them did. When they all close their eyes, they see nothing but sharp teeth, blood or chasing and panic. "We still know why..." Rainbow Dash said by breaking the silence. "Why what?" Pinkie Pie asked with a little worried emotion. "Why did Fluttershy turned into a wolf?" Rainbow Dash continued and shook her head. "I don't." Twilight said. "I don't think she turned into a wolf on purpose. Something mysterious is going on for sure but the thing is we need to stop it. And I decided to make it as Plan Z but she wanted this. It is our last hope." said Twilight and turned herself back. "What is Plan Z Twilight? Remember we can't get close to her because you know she can chew us with only one bite." said Rainbow Dash. "We won't. You won't. I can't risk you two and lose you both! I need to go and ask for a help from princesses and my brother. I hope we can fix it because if Flutterwolf is in Everfree right now, she can be in Ponyville tomorrow. We can't risk other ponies lives. So tomorrow first thing we need to do is going to Canterlot. I will wake you two up when Princess Celestia raises the sun! Good night for now..." said Twilight and started to sleep for a while. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash after a struggle tried and started to sleep too. Tomorrow was a big day for them. They needed to continue. They had to. Or else it could get worse. They can't let the other pony friends of them to die. The sun started to reappear in Everfree Forest. Twilight didn't even try to wake her friends up because they were already awake and looking to the ceiling. They got the three bodies back to the Ponyville and buried them. They saw Apple Bloom crying in panic... They tried to tolerate her but it was not a thing to cheer someone up. "I guess ahm the big sister now..." she said and cried more and more. Our three ponies needed to continue their way. They had to stop the danger. With or without them with struggle and hardness they decided to continue and catched a train to Canterlot. While in train something terrible passed through Rainbow Dash's mind. "What will happen to Elements of Harmony? " and while she was shocked Pinkie Pie created a sudden and a huge gasp too. Twilight closed her eyes and looked down. "I don't know." she said. "I wish I knew but I do not! I know nothing of course! My ignorance made me lose three of my friends! How will I ever look at myself again in the mirror!" "We said Twilight, it is not your fault and it will never be. Now the thing we need to think is how can Celestia and Luna can stop a wolf? Magic? And also we can't harm Fluttershy... She is still a friend. We can't lose her too... We are going to princesses for a cure right? Not for a weapon? Twilight?". asked and insisted Rainbow Dash, though she did not get a reply from Twilight. "Oh my god!" said Rainbow Dash and started to cry silently on one of the beds in the train. "Look!" Pinkie Pie interrupted. "We are here girls. Canterlot!" -MORE COMING SOON-