//------------------------------// // COLLISION! // Story: The Seventh Member of the Friendship Council // by SkystreamthePegasus //------------------------------// Skystream woke and in an instant she felt pain unimaginable by pony kind. This pain was everywhere, and nothing was quite like it. She was pinned under a log-like branch that had likely broke in the storm. She tried to move, hopefully in order to wiggle out, but when she did the pain doubled somehow. She felt her consciousness begin to slip away once more, and, in a last attempt to keep from blacking out, cried, "HEEELLPP!!! SOMEPONY PLEASE HEEEELLLP!!!". Unfortananitly, it seemed her cries of distress weren't loud enough, the pain became too much for her and she saw only blackness yet again. Twilight looked over all of her friends sitting at the table, From Applejack, strong and steadfast, to Rarity, who was looking the throne with great interest and muttering to herself "What a horrible font to put on such a beautiful piece of furniture", to Pinkie Pie, who was looking forward to making a new friend. Her eyes shot upwards towards the ceiling as a smile played on her lips, though once she realized the author knows all, she returned her eyes to they're normal state. Rainbow Dash. was starting to show her impatience as Starlight zoomed around the table, balancing eight coffee's to give to each mare, and finally to her faithful assistant Spike, who was sitting next to her and staring at the newly grown throne between Pinkie's and Fluttershy's throne. At last, it was time to start the meeting. "All right then. Welcome ,everypony, to the forth meeting of the Friendship Council. Reason? The new thro-" "HOLD IT!" Cried Rarity, slamming her hooves on the Map, causing all attention to go towards her. She blushed at her sudden outburst and stammered out her question. "W-w-where, may I ask, I-is F-Fluttershy? She is a member, is she not?" Twilight giggled slightly, but then regained her composure, "Fluttershy has informed me that she has to check on her animals after yesterdays storm and will try to join us later if she can. She deeply regrets having to miss the meeting, and she said so several times. If she does not show up, Spike is writing down everything we say, including now, for anypony who would like to see what happened in this meeting in the future. Now, shall we continue? We must discuss the apparent seventh member of the Friendship Council-" "Did anypony else here, hear a ding?" "No Pinkie, I don't think so," Twilight said, clearly annoyed, "Anyways, we've already tried Starlight and she refuses to go near that thing unless it's to bring somepony food or drink. Due to the use of pony in the prophecy, we do not believe that Spike is the Seventh Member, and besides, he's been raised to much like a pony to be like the prophecy, no offense Spike." "Ugh, none taken, Twilight you know I don't care about that kind of thing!" Spike said whilst writing what he was saying. Twilight gave him a motherly smile and continued, "It's obvious that none of you are this new member, since you are all members already. So, we need to brainstorm who we know, that has what a manticore does, and has good friendships. I have provided some paper, quills, and ink for you to write a list of possible candidates. We will now adjourn for a thirty minute period to jot down ideas." Twilight took a deep breath and calmed herself down. She had never really made such a serious speech, especially to her friends. "Hey, Sparkle?" Rainbow whispered to Twilight, breaking her out of her little trance, "Nice speech, but don't be so boring and serious again, it's.. weird" O-kay, next time, bring some joy into your voice. Fluttershy was doing one of her favorite parts of her life's work in animal caretaking, calming down the animals she cares for is a nice feeling. Seeing the animals she loves go from scared to comforted gives her this feeling that makes her feel like she's making a difference to these poor animals. And it made her feel close to herself, after all she got her Cutie Mark doing just this, and she knew that the only feeling that could compare to this is being with her friends. Being with her friends, is something that she might not be able to do today because as she was helping a shaking Angel into bed with a broken leg, she heard a scream. "HEEELLPP!!! SOMEPONY PLEASE HEEEELLLP!!!". Fluttershy ran through her thoughts. She had already helped all the animals with whatever problems the storm caused, and if somepony needs help then she should help them. She located the source of the shout, and when she locked on to it, she flew off in the direction of it. It wasn't until she almost flew straight into a tree that she realized that she was in the Everfree Forest. Instantly she started to panic. What if she was being lured by a Siren or some other type of scary creature who was trying to eat her. "No", she told herself, calming her shaking knees and wiping the sweat from her forehead,"there might be a pony in danger who needs me, and I've got to help them...somehow". And with that she went forward to find this poor pony who was in trouble. She only had to run a short distance to find the scene of the crime. A giant branch had fallen on a poor pony, and she had fallen unconscious. Fluttershy went to the end of the branch and slowly lifted the end of the branch into the air, moved the end over to the side and off the poor pegasus, as she found out when she lifted the branch which revealed the horribly bent-out-of-shape wings, in order to cause the poor mare less pain. And then, Fluttershy picked up the mare, as gently as possible, and flew back to her cottage in order to help her.