//------------------------------// // Fallen Angel // Story: Fears // by Short Stories //------------------------------// A light yellow room with light pink door and her cutie mark imprinted on the wooden door's surface. That's what she saw when she woke up. But, instead of her going out the door, which she was about to do, a grizzly bear burst through the door, looking quite panicked; Fluttershy could see the inside of her cottage on the other side. Harry kept pointing somewhere outside of the door, out of Fluttershy's view, but she got the message just fine. "You want me to follow you?" Fluttershy asked Harry, just to be sure. Harry nodded urgently. "Oh my, is it urgent?" Another hurried Harry nod. Fluttershy zoomed out of the dainty little room she was in and up the stairs to her bedroom, where a mass of animals were waiting for her. Angel Bunny was on the bad and Harry cam heaving up the stairs moments later. "What's wrong? Is every animal OK?" Fluttershy asked, her concern growing as she scanned the room and didn't see one happy animal face. They all looked solemn...sad...they type of faces you'd see at a funeral. At a funeral... A funeral?! Fluttershy zoomed over to the bed Angel lay on, quickly but gently removing the sheets that covered him. Her hoof covered her mouth as the sight she saw unraveled before her. There was a hole--the size of a bullet--that cleared through Angel Bunny's soft, white fur. She couldn't see the bed he laid on through the hole, thankfully, but this was a horrible and heart-wrenching moment all the same. Fluttershy's eyes welled up with tears as she threw her hoofs around her wounded bunny. "Oh, Angel!" She bawled, "Angel, Angle, Angel...why did it have to be you?! I-I-I just don't know what to do without you, Angel, I- I-" Harry's claw came down and gently but firmly closed Fluttershy's muzzle as he raised his other paw to his lips, telling her to be quiet. And listen. So she did. She put her furry little ear right next to Angel's head and listened. The rooms mood changed from sad to suspenseful in a matter of minutes. *bump pump* *bump pump* His heartbeat. That was a good sign! Two seconds later, she heard a shaky breath come out of Angel's mouth. That was an excellent sign! "He's still...alive?" Fluttershy asked all of her animal friends. Harry had already taken his paw off of her muzzle and now held his paws as if he were praying, which he might've been doing, Every animal head in the room except Fluttershy's, Angel's and Harry's nodded. That was some amazing news! "It's not too late?" Her hopes rose even more as every animal somehow gave a thumbs up. "I can still save him?" Fluttershy asked, cradling Angel like a baby as she hovered in the air; even though that was more of a rhetorical question, every animal nodded anyways. "What a relief!" Fluttershy cheered, then turned her attention to Harry. "Come on! Let's go to Twilight...maybe she can help get this bullet out of Angel's stomach." Harry growled in response, saying "good idea" in bear. He started heading down the stairs while Fluttershy lingered behind. "I'll be sure to tell all of you what happens" She told every pet that was still in her room. "I'll be at Twilight's if you need me." With that, she flew down the stairs as fast as she could and out the door where Harry was waiting for her. She tried to find a happy medium between fast and slow so Harry could catch up, but she was terrified they wouldn't make it in time. It was a matter of bunny life or bunny death. And it all rested on Twilight's shoulders.