The path below the white bunny blurred, as he hopped away from the cottage in blind terror. Every now and again he turned around to see if Fluttershy was making after him, but luckily for him, she was not. He jumped off of the path, and across the road before he noticed the school in the distance. So, he jumped over to the field to see the students outside having their lunch, as it was a warm and sunny day. Angel jumped towards the school, seeing it as a place of refuge. He caught sight of Rarity and her friends, so he made his way down to greet them.
When he reached them, he dashed over to Rarity and began jumping frantically in the air in order to get her attention. She turns around and sees the bunny hopping in place before she recognises him as Angel Bunny.
“Angel?” She said as Angel began pointing over in the direction of the cottage.
“Fluttershy?” Angel nodded as he began jumping away still holding onto Rarity.
“Angel, I can’t just up-and-leave school...” She then noticed the terrified look in his little face and couldn’t help but sigh.
“Fine, I’ll have to sneak out of school, though….”
Rarity grabbed Angel and left, leaving the group in shock as they had no idea what was going on. Rarity ran along the path with ease as Angel began to shift around in her grasp, Rarity looked down at him as she continued to run towards her friends cottage, attempting to calm his nerves.
She had come close to the cottage when Angel broke free of her grasp and stood to one side. She looked down at him with an unsettling feeling, as Rarity was unsure as to what was up with him. Walking over to the entrance gate, she opened it, causing it to groan on its rusting hinges. She then proceeded to walk over to the front door.
The atmosphere changed and became icy cold as Rarity planted her hand on the cold doorknob, she tried to open it, but it wouldn’t budge. So she instead attempted to boot the greasy, wooden door. The door broke off it’s hinges. ”Shit!”
Rarity wandered inside, and scanned the now broken door, but something else caught her attention. Multiple drops of blood were scattered around her carpet, and the pictures that were originally placed upon the wall were now on the floor. Rarity walked in a picked up the nearest one. It was quite a recent picture of the band, Fluttershy had someone’s arms wrapped around her neck.
Upon looking more closely at the image, she noticed it was herself who had arms wrapped around Fluttershy, they looked so happy together. However, the shattered glass juxtaposed that happy image. She then placed it to one side and tried to turn on the light switch. However, even after trying multiple times, it would not work. She continued to move towards the stairs, for she now had a view of both the kitchen and the living room at the same time.
She couldn’t see Fluttershy anywhere, so she called for her. “Fluttershy!”
There was no answer from her friend, there was just the sound of rapid footsteps approaching her from behind. In a panic, her head spun around rapidly, but to her relief it was just Angel finally following her into the house. He began to hop past the purple-haired girl and pointed upstairs. She began to ascend upwards, the stairs creaked with her every step.
Rarity shivered, then her head turned to see Angel sat in the living room, he seemed too mortified to do anything. Rarity pondered her mind to pinpoint the exact reason as to why Angel didn’t want to follow her, or even why he was so frighted to see his owner. She continued to climb the last two steps.
Reaching the top she noticed all the doors were wide open baring one: Fluttershy’s bedroom. Rarity slowly approached the closed door, and knocked against it softly.
“Fluttershy, darling? Are you in there?”
“Leave me alone, please!” The muffled voice shouted. It was Fluttershy, but her voice was much deeper than before.
“Please open the door, I want to talk to you. You sound terrible! Are you sure you’re alright?” Rarity asked as she heard something fall from within Shy’s room.
“Shit! Rarity! Please leave now!” Rarity then heard her gasp for breath. “This isn’t the time!” Her voice cracked, as the sentence came to a close.
“Just tell me then, are you okay?” Rarity asked.
Silence. A long silence occurred, and to Rarity this seemed disturbing and downright creepy. However, Shy eventually spoke.
“Please.” She pleaded.
Rarity sighed in defeat. “Alright dear, if you need me, just remember to call!”
“Okay.” Her voice became a deep, but low whisper.
Rarity then began to walk away, until she spotted something glimmering in the bathroom. She became curious, and thus moves in to investigate.
It was a large, blood-covered kitchen knife.
A rank smell flared in her nostrils, as she spun around to find what was creating the rancid stench. It was the sink. Laying in the sink was a deer hide which was also covered in blood. Rarity gagged, almost spewing the contents of her stomach and adding to the odour, and made a run for the stairs. She physically jumped over the bannister, as Angel hopped over and jumped into her arms.
“You can spend the night with me, Angel. Whatever has gotten into that girl? She would never usually leave a dead deer in her sink, if that wasn’t obvious already, and it looks like she won’t be leaving her room anytime soon.” Rarity said, as she ran over to the door and left, closing it behind her.
…
Rainbow Dash smiled as she pressed multiple buttons at once, causing her character to jump into the air with the opposing enemy in a crushing death grip, and crash them into the ground with a loud bang.
“Fatality!” Sunset grunted and threw her remote at Dash.
“You always beat me! Why?!” She shouted as Dash laughed.
“Because I’m awesome.” Her ego was pulsing as Applejack sat down beside her.
“I’ll bet I can beat you,” Applejack said as Dash accepted the challenge.
“You’re on!” Dash retorted, shuffling in her seat and preparing for an intense match.
The two began to play enthusiastically, as Rarity walked in with Angel bunny in her hands. Pinkie ran over and hugged her tight, as though she hadn’t seen her in years.
“Oh my god, Rarity! I thought something bad had happened at lunch, and so I had to tell Mr Rich you had a family emergency to cover for you. Then you never came back! Is something wrong?”
“Yeah, it’s Fluttershy. Her lights don’t work, blood is scattered across her floor and her pictures are smashed and ruined. There is also a deer hide in the sink which is covered in blood. not to mention the knife I found, which was caked with blood!” Rarity said as Sunset gasped.
“Fluttershy would never kill a deer for it’s hide…”
“Now wait a second, Sunny. Rarity never said anything about her killing it.” Pinkie said.
Rarity interrupted, “She was telling me to leave, constantly. I think I need to check back up on her, but I would rather not do it alone. Angel too terrified to even move so much as a limb as I was going upstairs. I think Fluttershy did something to him after we had that peculiar phone call with her.
“Well, I’ll go with you. I really care for her, so I’m in.” Sunset announced as Applejack spoke up,
“Me too.”
“Pinkie? You and Rainbow stay with Angel plea-” Rarity was suddenly interrupted by a loud crunching sound.
“Fatality!”
“Bullshit! You cheated!” Dash yelled at the laughing blonde, as she got up onto her feet and prepared for an argument.
“I didn’t, I’m just better than you.” Dash crossed her arms as Angel jumped down to greet Dash, she stroked him gratefully.
“So, listen up everybody,” Rarity got the group’s attention, “Rainbow, you and Pinkie stay with Angel. While you’re preoccupied here, Applejack, Sunset and I will go and check up on Fluttershy. Sound good?” The group nodded in approval of the arrangements.
“While I’m out, Dash, why don’t you practice and see if you can beat me next time?” Applejack sniped, as Dash already had another game loaded.
“Oh, I will.” Her voice was flat.
Rarity clapped her hands together. “Right, before we go, I need to head on home and grab my things and then run to the supermarket for some drinks. Afterwards, we can go to Fluttershy’s. Sound like a plan?”
“Yeah,” Sunset said as Applejack nodded.
“Can you pick me up a bottle of coke while you are down there?” Dash asked as Rarity nodded. “Pinks, do you want anything?”
“No, thanks,” She replied as Rarity looked through her bag.
She pushed her makeup bag, purse and other stuff to one side and grabbed her car keys. “Let’s head off, then.”