//------------------------------// // Just a normal day // Story: The day fluttershy was silent // by Storm Rival //------------------------------// It was a pleasant day outside, and Fluttershy was busy getting her animal friends lunch. Birds their worms, squirrels their acorns and bear his fish. All about she fluttered, until she noticed something out of the ordinary. Where was Angel bunny? He usually was the first one to request lunch by stamping on Fluttershy's hoof, yet today he wasn't anywhere to be found. She looked where Angel bunny usually is with the bright sunny day, and finds that he's not there. How was it she didn't notice his absence until now. Getting worried she flew through Ponyville shouting out her bunny's name, "Angel! Where are you?!" All across Ponyville she searched only to find that angel wasn't there. She then remembers a special spot she had made specifically for him. His favorite spot was a place that only Fluttershy and Angel knew. It was secluded, and quiet. Fluttershy saw her white bunny near the trees and carrot patch. "Angel!" She cried in happiness. As she got closer though, she learned the devastating truth...Angel bunny was dead. Tears were streaming down her face, as she couldn't accept what she had just seen. Angel had to be playing a prank. "C-c'mone A-Angel, wake up!" She tried using her assertive voice, but it was choked up by her crying. Angel, you've got to wake up, lunch is almost done." She said knowing what she had said was partly a lie. After trying time and time again to wake her one and only best pet, she knew it was hopeless. Fluttershy now wailed in angel's special spot, alone, secluded and on a beautiful day. A random cloud had come over her head, and she knew she could swat it away at anymoment, yet, she decided not to. I'm a horrible caregiver, was a thought that had crossed her mind as she wept, and the cloud lightly pestered her. But then again she knew this was false for how much she had done for her animal friends, and how she'd strengthened the bond between two of the most unlikely of friends. Tank and Rainbow Dash were complete opposites, yet, they've always been together like the horn of a unicorn or the wings of a Pegasus. Finally reliving this fact, Fluttershy sucked in a hard breath, and swat the cloud that was pestering her away. "I must tell the others this." Fluttershy said to herself, after having an hour or so to cry about the death of her most beloved pet. As she flew past, she noticed that the sun was setting, and more notably what time it actually was. Time for dinner, was fluttershy's only thought and as she continued home, she noticed that each step she took only got shorter and shorter. Fluttershy slowly got to her door and as soon as she'd gotten to the stepped hoof on the porch of the cottage she began to go numb. 'what if the same thing happens again, what if... She stopped herself before going on to the next negative thing,.. "I won't, I must be assertive," she said as she opened the door to her cottage with every animal's dinner in tow. She trotted through handing her animals the food for their evening meal. Everything the rest of the evening went fine. There was a light sprinkle out side, the likes of which the little cloud earlier had brought, Though, now she wished for a precious bunny. She began to blame herself again, I'd let angel starve, was all she thought, as her innermost thoughts on what was right and wrong betrayed her telling her false truths. She tried to fall asleep, but couldn't so she continued on with constant tears the remainder of the night as her animal friends brought tissue for her, and tried to comfort the only one who'd comfort them.