//------------------------------// // (2) Meeting Rainbow Dash // Story: The Lost One // by redpyramid1 //------------------------------// It is a beautiful day in Equestria, the sun is shinning, the birds are chirping, and a beautiful sound is coming from a home outside of Ponyville. Near the home is the beautifully elegant pegasis pony known as Fluttershy. She is tending to all her little animal friends, with Colt nearby. Fluttershy is humming one of her beautiful songs to herself. While tending to her little friends, she periodically looks over to Colt, making sure he is okay. Every time she saw him he seamed to get closer to her. She didn't mind this at all, in fact she felt better every time Colt got closer to her. She felt that with every inch Colt took, he became more comfortable with her. Colt is watching all the little animals run around him and Fluttershy. This made Colt feel a bit nervous, which made him start to get closer to her. Fluttershy noticed Colt was starting to look nervous around the other animals, she quickly thought about what she should do to make Colt feel more comfortable around them. 'Maybe if I could get him to feed some of them, he would be less nervous' She thought. Fluttershy grabs some nuts from a basket nearby and flew over to him "Colt, would you like to feed some animals?" asked Fluttershy. Colt said nothing and instead gave Fluttershy a nervous look "here you go Colt" Fluttershy said as she handed (Hoofded?) Colt the nuts. Colt stared at the nuts in his hands, then at Fluttershy with a puzzled look "Give them to those squirrels over there" said Fluttershy with a cheery voice. Colt looks at the squirrels that Fluttershy is pointing to, Colt hesitated, looking at the squirrels, then at Fluttershy, then back to the squirrels again "go on Colt, go make some friends" said Fluttershy as she gently nudges Colt towards the squirrels. Colt whimpers slightly as he walks towards the small brown critters. The squirrels gave a confused look at the bipedal creature that is slowly walking towards them. Colt crouches down in front of the squirrels, his hands are shaking from his nervousness, Colt slowly extends his trembling hands towards the four critters sitting in front of him. The squirrels looks at him, then at the nuts, then back at him. This went on for about a minute, until one of the squirrels jumps into the nuts, making Colt yelp as he jumps up in fright. Colt fell on his rump and quickly crawls backwards until he is completely under Fluttershy, holding her left foreleg. "Oh my, you're a timid one aren't you?" she said, as she tried to calm down the now slightly hyperventilating creature. Colt starts to calm down as Fluttershy nuzzles the top of his head, humming a nice tune to him. Colt didn't make a sound, as he heard a beautiful noise coming from the yellow Pegasus. To Colt, it is an orchestra of angelic voices, sending him to his happiest place, which just so happens to be with Fluttershy. When Fluttershy finished humming to Colt she found him asleep, cuddling her. Fluttershy stares at the now sleeping creature she had found in the Everfree forest. She wonders if it was a good idea to take home a creature of which she had absolutely no idea if it is dangerous or not. Fluttershy quickly got rid of these thoughts as she remembered why she had brought the poor thing home with her. It, no-- He was alone, crying, and felt absolutely cold to the bone. The poor thing, he would have froze to death if she hadn't found him in time. Fluttershy sighs and picks Colt up and puts him on her back, she then proceeded to slowly walk towards her home, as carefully as possible. She doesn't want to accidentally drop Colt while he sleeps, or at all for that matter. Fluttershy opens the door to her home and walks over to her couch where she slid Colt off her back and onto the couch. Fluttershy stares at Colt for a while, simply admiring how adorable he looks while sleeping. As Fluttershy is admiring her new sleeping friend, she heard the sound of wings flapping and hooves hitting the floor on her wooden porch. When she turns around, she sees Rainbow Dash walking through the doorway, which she forgot to close and yells out "Yo Fluttershy! You in here? We're gonna be late for Pinkie Pie's taste testing party at Twilight's place!". Before Fluttershy could reply, Rainbow Dash spots her and promptly said "Hey, there you are! What's with the hold up Fluttershy? We're gonna be late fo-" Rainbow's voice is interrupted by a yellow hoof to her mouth. "Sshhh, Rainbow be quite, or else your gonna wake up-" Fluttershy whispers, not wanting to wake Colt up until Rainbow Dash muffles into her hoof. "HuuummMmmmmMmmmeeeh" Rainbow Dash tries talking with confusion, only to have Fluttershy's hoof still pressed on her mouth. "Colt” Fluttershy finishes, fearing Colt may now have woken up. Fluttershy turns around to see Colt, sitting up and staring right at them. His eye's has a mixture of fear and uncertainty. Colt began trying to make himself as small as possible whilst backing into the corner of the couch. Fluttershy saw this and walked towards Colt while speaking in a calm motherly voice "Its ok Colt, don't be scared, nopony's gonna hurt you, right Rainbow" Fluttershy looks over her shoulder, and gave Rainbow a small scowl as well. Fluttershy never scowled at her before, or anypony for that matter. This made Rainbow Dash shiver with a chill running down her spine "uh...y-yeah! I'm not g-gonna...gonna...um...hurt you...uhh-" Rainbow Dash stutters in slight fear. "Colt" Fluttershy stated. "Colt, yeah...I'm not gonna do anything bad too ya" Rainbow Dash reassures the unknown creature with a nervous smile. Colt gave Rainbow a 'You Promise?' look. "I promise! cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in me ey-YEOW!!" Yelps Rainbow as she accidentally poked her eye. As she rubbed her now watery eye, she heard a small chuckle coming from Colt "See Colt, Rainbow's not a bad pony" Colt eyes Rainbow for a bit, before he finally began to relax. After a few moments of awkward silence Rainbow spoke up "sooo... Fluttershy...um, what is this...uh, um, I mean what is Colt? And where'd you find, uhh..Him?". Fluttershy sat on the couch next to Colt, and put a hoof to her chin to show herself deep in thought "Well" she begins "I found him in the Everfree forest, by a river. He was alone, crying, and I couldn't just stand there and not do anything to help him. Poor thing must have been there for hours" Fluttershy glanced towards Colt. Colt was having an eye staring contest with Angel Bunny... which is weird because last time she knew Angel was visiting some friends in the Everfree forest...'I don't think Colt knows what's going on' thought Fluttershy. Silence filled the room as Fluttershy pondered how, and when angel got home, Angel started sweating bullets as he was on the verge of losing his staring contest, Colt was... well Colt was just sitting there, staring into Angels eye's with confusion. Rainbow is getting bored pretty fast & began to look for a way out of this situation, she then remembered why she had come over to Fluttershy's home in the firs place "So Fluttershy, you ready to head on over to Twilight's for that party!" Fluttershy gives a thoughtful look between her friend and Colt "Oh I don't know Rainbow Dash, I have to look after Colt here and I don't know what his reaction will be like when he meets other ponies. You saw how scared he was when he saw you." Rainbow Dash waves a hoof sideways "I'm sure he'll be fine, so long as he's with you." Fluttershy taps her chin "Well, we both haven't eaten lunch yet... what do you say Colt? Do you want to go get some lunch at Twilight's?" Asks Fluttershy with a smile on her face. As soon as Futtershy finished her sentence, Colt's stomach growled, making him blush slightly. "Well that answer's that, lets go Fluttershy! I wanna get there before Pinkie Pie 'accidentally' tests all of the new food she's bringing" said Rainbow as she trots outside. "Well Colt" Fluttershy starts as she helps Colt get down from the couch "I guess it's time for you to meet my friends...". Edited by SHONENJUMPBOY. Author's Note: Am I doing this AN right?... meh whatever, ok, so... good news and bad news. Good news, I know where im gonna take this. Bad news is I have no idea how to take it there so... I guess I'll take it one step at a time or something. also I'm writing another story to get rid of writer's block and to increase my comedy/writing skills soooo, yeah. that's all folks. oh and I started working on Chapter 3 so hopefully I wont take a freaking month to let the next chapter out... sorry about that. one more thing, any ideas for a title for this chapter?