Yonder Wandered Fluttershy

by Darkonshadows


102

Fluttershy got the call out and both Felicia and Jenny were swiftly on their way, while fighting through Red’s gathering demons.

It was a minute later that Jenny came charging into the lobby’s upper area from the left and leapt onto the banister to slide her way down to the main floor, Fluttershy watched as she launched off the end of the staircase with a flip and turned to face Red who had completely forgone or avoided the stairs entirely. He nearly struck Jenny with the full weight of his body from his leap. Jenny ducked out of the way and Red had seen Fluttershy in the angelic barrier and came to sliding skid to put him between Jenny and the barrier.

He was not about to let Jenny or Felicia solve the paradox, lifting up to his full twenty foot height he roared and demons started flooding towards his call as he faced down Jenny who lit up a hand with magic while pulling out her personal maser pistol she had on her. She looked wary of all the demons starting to position themselves around the holy barrier.

Coming from the right in the upper lobby at the top of the staircase was Felicia who started down the stairs and the large bulking body of flesh Fluttershy had seen earlier had been chasing her, it stopped at the stairs and jumped over the nearby side railing to come crashing to the floor and it hadn’t missed Felicia’s notice as Red and Jenny started fighting. Red was not only swift, but he was big as well and Jenny was trying to stay away from him.

The hulking pile of flesh tried to grab at Felicia while she had been distracted after reaching the bottom of the stairs. She rolled away from the hulking monsters attempts at grabbing her and slung a blast of energy into its face sending it staggering backwards. That was when an army of smaller demons started to bar both Felicia and Jenny’s path to reaching Fluttershy, mostly a lot of spiders with scythe blades for legs that skittered to and fro along with an ample supply of red and shadow imps.

“You think your power can stop me forever?” Red had managed to grab onto Jenny and lifted her up from the floor and she using her magic to burn at his claws wrapped around her. “You’re power pales in comparison to my own.”

“Pick on someone more like you, Hellfire Hammer!” Holding a big blue sphere of raw boiling demonic energy in her paws above her head, Belladonna came slamming down on top of Red’s back causing him to reflexively fling Jenny off to the side from the blow.

Jenny bounced along the ground twice before coming to a stop on her face, she looked pretty tired as she slowly stood up and readied her maser pistol.

Red grunting as he went down to his knees as a huge circular scorch mark burnt itself into his back; he swung clumsily at Belladonna who had backed off from Red.

Fluttershy could tell that the true fight had begun with Belladonna calling out her attack to distract Red from killing Jenny.

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Jenny grunted as demons started to surround her, Felicia was dealing some damage to that monstrous wall of humanoid flesh that kept yelling ‘Stars’. As if that creature knew they weren’t from this planet. It wasn’t fast, but it was powerful and stopping it once it got a momentum going wasn’t easy. It was a good thing Felicia was quite light on her feet to avoid another ramming attack and then followed that up by blasting away a Skitter Scythe that nearly took her head off.

Jenny nearly got hit by a Skitter Scythe herself by not paying attention to all the demons surging into the room to stand guard around the holy barrier that kept them from getting at Fluttershy. The demented giant bladed spider suddenly lost its face due to a maser bolt from Willy, the demons couldn’t get him to retaliate because he was within the barrier as he started to blindly fire into the crowd of smaller demons.

Willy took some shots at the hulking mass of flesh harassing it into missing Felicia whom it had cornered a second ago. Willy was always the best at being in a support role and Virgil was giving him instruction and pointing in several directions as to where he should be shooting.

Charlie was horrified by the number of demons present and that some of them looked like zombies or humans twisted into the form of ghouls. He and Itchy stayed near the middle of the barrier with Willy whereas Annabelle sat at the edge of the barrier in a meditative position with her paws clapped together in a prayer position and her eyes closed; she was still as a statue.

Belladonna flared her right wing shredding through several imps and then she pierced the end of that wing through a Skitter Scythe and hurled it at Red as she charged him. Red batted the dead demon aside and charged Belladonna with equal amount of fury.

The battle between Red and Belladonna was brutality at its best as they were bloodying each other quite horribly. Belladonna was not actually trying to match Red in his muscle, she was hitting him with hit and run tactics and used the fact that she had ranged attacks to her advantage. She began spitting demonic fireballs at him from her mouth at his face before ramming him to the floor and started to slash at his face with her own claws.

Red blocked one of her hits and slapped her hard enough to cause her to yelp as his strength had bodily flung her aside, where she reoriented herself in mid-air by spreading her wings. She came down with all four of her legs impacting a solid wall of flesh and she kicked off in a blast of blue fire, scorching the fleshy humanoid demon as she shot off back toward Red.

The demon that Belladonna had bounced off of was the one that Felicia and Jenny were both fighting to bring down, which was along with all the other smaller demons that kept pushing them away from the safety of the barrier that was protecting everyone but the three who were viciously fighting the demons.

Belladonna’s attack had an effect of staggering and damaging the demon long enough for Jenny to blast of one of its arms off while Felicia aimed at what looked to be its large beating heart on the outside of its body. The demon lost an arm and survived the direct damage to its torso from the blasts of magic much better, its hulking form was quite resilient and it had been taking near constant maser blasts from Jenny who was cauterizing every wound to slow down its healing speed. This included the stump where the demons arm used to be.

Fluttershy held on tight to Soft Echo as she tried to go to what she believed was her doggy that was getting roughed up by the physically stronger Red and was still actually giving better than she received. Looking to see why Willy had stopped firing, she could his maser pistol was cooling down judging from the heat it was giving off. She looked to Virgil who was constantly making calculations about everything in the room, his eyes were darting about near constantly as if her were trying to record everything that was taking place in this battle. The three angel dogs sat still and were doing their jobs in keeping the barrier strong. It all made Fluttershy feel so useless that she couldn’t do anything to help.

The pony still needed the rest and was a bit dehydrated from climbing out of the basement levels of this place. Her only job right now was to make sure little Soft Echo didn’t put herself in the path of danger by going outside the holy barrier, which had to this point evaporated several dumb demons that had tried to get at them.

There was a scream of pain, turning to look at Belladonna, Fluttershy watched as Red reached down with his right hand and gripped Belladonna’s right wing. His left foot was planted squarely on Belladonna’s back as he ripped her wing off and tossed it aside. Instead of crying about it the dog gritted her teeth and then she screamed, but it wasn’t a scream of pain.

“Unleash the beast, Psycho Burgundy!” Belladonna blew Red off her back with a burst of crimson energy as she turned on him in her red furred, golden eyed transformed state and unleashed a furious attack on him with her aura flaring powerfully. She rammed him into the wall and pinned him there by stabbing her wing straight through his lower abdomen where one of his kidneys would be. Then Belladonna started smashing him down with her paws and biting him. She ripped off large amounts of flesh and muscle with each bite and claw wearing down his massive physical advantage by going at his arms and legs while she had him pinned and stunned.

With each attack Red was losing a copious amounts of blood, he knew he had to bide his time as the wounds from her lost wing and her aura itself were going to eventually affect her horribly. He waited until the right moment and lashed out elongating his tail to wrap it around her throat and quickly flung her away into a wall which cratered with the impact of her body.

Red gave himself some time to recover from her devastating assault and Belladonna’s aura had worn off, she still got up and charged through several demons while whipping her left wing around and scything through multiple demons with its sharp edge and leapt at him, he was quite surprised to find that Belladonna still had this much of a fight in her.

Turning away from the fight where the obviously weakened Belladonna was still going at Red with all she had, Fluttershy saw that Felicia and Jenny were still surrounded. Only the giant pile of flesh that kept saying ‘Stars’ was now certainly dead and its legs were missing the upper half of its body, which was currently a smoldering pile of burnt flesh on the floor. They were looking pretty ragged as their Aldebaran armor had dents and scratches and both their cloaks were full of holes. Surprisingly their long flowing manes looked completely untouched despite all the battling going on.

Jenny blasted a few imps and shot one of the ghoulish looking zombie demons through the head which exploded from the beam of energy and it immediately dropped to the floor unmoving. Behind her Felicia was gathering a huge orb of light above them while holding her hands to the sides of her face, when her eyes opened the orb darted about the room and started to suck in any demon that got near it and they perished instantly upon contact with the powerful magical white hole that had been created by Felicia.

While Felicia was stuck in that spot Jenny protected her still and exposed form as she controlled the dangerous magical attack and swept it around the room devastating every demon it hit, after a moment the orb dissipated and Felicia started gasping for breath and after having used so much power at once.

Turning back to Belladonna Fluttershy had to watch as another body part got ripped off the dog, it was her left hind leg and she was on her back this time. Red lifted the torn off limb and bit into with a smile on his face as he swallowed her flesh.

“Hmm… the taste of a weak little whore; I have no need of weakness.” He kicked Belladonna in the chest and sent her skidded a few feet towards the holy barrier, he started to stomp forward. “It’s about time someone put you in your place. Your soul will be utterly useless, but I may feed you to the imps once I’ve conquered the world.”

Soft Echo managed to squirm her way out of Fluttershy’s grasp and Fluttershy immediately gave chase as the little filly exited the barrier. She ran to stand in front of Belladonna’s beaten form and glared at Red using Fluttershy’s ‘stare’ ability.

The stare he was getting from the filly only caused Red to falter for a second, he grinned and leaned down. He moved his left hand forward and harshly flicked Soft Echo back into the holy barrier where the snapping sound of her left wing striking the ground was heard. Her sudden crying and sniffling was music to his ears, he cherished every moment of her pain and suffering. What did the little thing think it was going to do with a wimpy power like that?

Fluttershy was immediately by Soft Echo’s crying side as she was screaming for her mother. She tried to calm the filly down; it wasn’t going over so well with her left wing being completely shattered. The filly even looked up to see the demon lifting Belladonna into the air by the neck about to snap it, she was also crying out for her doggy.

“Is there any last words, boogey dog?” Spitting out those two words he received a small bit of flaming spit to the eye. It caused Red to reel back clutching at his right eye with his hand, he decided that Belladonna’s defiance had gone on too long, he started to tighten his grip on her neck in his right hand. “You’ll pay for that!”

“Homicidal Hyacinth!” A voice rang out.

Before Red could make good on his promise, the fighting had all but stopped in that moment. All the demons in the room turned to the sudden change in atmosphere and were staring at what was happening. While they were busy doing that both Jenny and Felicia took the opportunity to make a break for the barrier, they weren’t as distracted by the event. Jenny holstered her highly abused maser pistol and sat down and Felicia sat with her once they made it safely.

Slowly Red dropped Belladonna to the floor and looked at what had caused his blood to splatter away from his chest and evaporate all over the holy barrier. There was a sharp tip of something poking out of his chest, slowly he stiffly turned his head and saw a rather horrific sight.

There was a giant Annabelle who had an aura that was purplish blue, all of her fur was icy blue and her eyes were glowing white with power. Her left paw was dug into his back and there was crystalline spear of ice leading from her leg straight through him.

“You broke a law Red. You hurt a being of Earth and within my presence no less, her name is Soft Echo born approximately three days ago. Do you deny these charges?” Annabelle was applying the fact that Soft Echo had been involved in time travel when she stated this, her voice was cold and the room started to slowly freeze over and all the demons were shivering from the sudden change in ambiance.

While demons had free reign to attack foreign beings to the Earth, any being born on Earth attacked by a demon while in the presence of angel would receive quite a harsh punishment and only if they were caught in the act. Red had been clearly been caught in the act, in the presence of three angels no less. He had no possibly way of defending himself from what Annabelle was about to do to him.

“I find you in breach of your job. I am within my rights to destroy your soul, but before that... Bloom and bring unto misery!” The ice spear Annabelle had growing out of her left leg flowered quite literally into a large flower made of ice that started filling with Red’s blood. Red’s body faded as if it were being sucked into the ice. A tortured scream could be heard inside the blood in the flower; soon Red’s soul could be seen screaming in agony within the flower that had taken his physical form. Slowly a white light began to encompass Annabelle and she whispered some words as her pink fur started to come back and her aura died away as she held the large pristine looking giant flower high above her head. “The law is clear, the complete destruction of the soul to be reborn anew. Hopefully this time it won’t be something so vile as to hurt such an innocent little baby.”

A blinding light flooded the room and the building. All the demons throughout the entire building were suddenly paralyzed and couldn’t move. Fluttershy took the time to drag Belladonna into the protective circle still being held up by a shocked Charlie and Itchy; she did so at Soft Echo’s whimpered crying for her doggy as she already had her mommy’s soft spoken words that it would be alright. The circle didn’t burn Belladonna who didn’t look so good covered in claw marks and having two amputated limbs, she was bleeding profusely from all her wounds.

“Fluttershy we need to hurry and fix the problem, we have three minutes. Summon the memory stones!” Felicia’s urgent tone brought Fluttershy attention away from Belladonna.

Fluttershy did so once she saw Belladonna lift her head slightly and started to run her paw through Soft Echo’s red mane further calming down the injured filly as she snuggled into what looked like Belladonna’s dying form. Once the world was safe, she could see to her daughter and the dog that she liked. With the two stones in her hoof she held them out to the tired and battered pair of Aldebarans.

“Which one is the one from your past self?” Felicia asked in honest worry as she was still busy catching her breath and regaining her strength, sharing her power with Jenny’s had been euphoric and now she was coming down off of that high feeling every single hit she took.

“Does it really matter? It’s the same stone through and through, we just need one to create a stable time loop, one of which will likely end in that demons demise for eternity.” Jenny picked one stone at random not caring as she was too tired to complain, her long pink hair hair was slightly matted with sweat and she needed to cleanse herself soon after this. She had been covered in demon gore and so had Felicia until they entered the barrier, but their sweat and tired bodies along with their long hair was not a good combination. They were a little confused at Belladonna’s continued survival as she was a demon after Fluttershy had dragged her into the barrier of light. “I may need your strength Felicia, I’m too tired to do this alone my friend and you have grown so strong young kitten.”

“I will aid you as always. You will always be a master to me Jenny, even when you have little left to teach.” After Princess Felicia’s words both Aldebarans started to glow. The stone levitated between them as they concentrated their magic in conjunction. Joining their powers the little red stone that had caused so much trouble disappeared in a flash and they both gasped in ragged breaths afterwards.

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The stone landed behind the past Fluttershy as she was looking out over the ocean and the stone clung to her as it had been detached from her future self. Then Soft Echo fell over the side followed by an emotionally powered Fluttershy who got far enough away from the stone to cause it to teleport just above the portal and fall in before it closed.

The time loop had been created and the world was saved from utter collapse that would have been caused by Fluttershy and a demon that made a mad grab for power due to incidentally summoning her past self’s stone.

-

During all this they all ignored the portal to the underworld opening in Annabelle’s presence and the fact that it started sucking all the demons that had been unleashed on the Earth back down to where they truly belong. It was all happening under Annabelle’s watchful eyes and she wouldn’t miss even a single shadow demon in making sure they were all being drawn back through the portal to the spirit realm.

Afterwards a worried Annabelle walked up to a badly injured Belladonna who was coughing up blood all over the floor, what worried her was that it wasn’t demons blood that the other dog was unleashing.

“Belladonna are you… going to be okay?” A tentative Annabelle had changed what she was going to ask, she couldn’t have stopped Belladonna from fighting Red even if she wanted to.

“Not in the slightest, I’m looking pretty bad for a bad girl huh Annabelle? Bet this gets you all hot and bothered my little snuggly do-gooder. I’m all fucked up seven ways to Sunday here and I’m not about to sugar coat this, you know very well what is currently happening to me here.” Belladonna couldn’t believe she was being affectionate with the tick; then again she was dying so she let her bout of insanity slide. “I’m getting the entire light at the end of the tunnel treatment, cute… so much for playing with Chuck and Scratchy anymore.”

“May you move on to a better and happier life, I wish you well as you move on. I have to say I’m a little stunned to see you bleeding the blood of mortals. For whom does the bell tone? It tones for her golden heart right down to the core.” Annabelle intoned softly over Belladonna as she lay back on the ground after coughing a bit more.

“Oh fuck you Annie! And none of you better even dare to even cry over me! Especially you, you stupid little tick! I’m not… worth it...” Giving off a soft cackle as her last outburst had drained her of any of the strength the dog had left, her eyes closed.

Belladonna died a hero, one with a rather vulgar way of going out without a single whimper and there with a rather amused toothy grin on her face as her caressing paw fell slack.

Everyone did cry over her anyway, never had there been a demon as noble as the one they saw. Soft Echo had known it all along and had been attracted to the standoffish pooch because she wanted a doggy of her own, she cried into the breathless chest of Belladonna as Annabelle lifted her broken wing with a glowing white paw.

The legend of the boogey dog, the one who had scared so many into being good with her malicious nature, was at its end. To never be forgotten as tomorrow came for San Francisco with the sun rising on the horizon.