All that is Fair part 1

by MrFahrenheit89

Chapter 1: New Challenger Approaches

It was a mild spring morning in Ponyville. A few clouds hung in the sky. Out in the garden of a small cottage on the outskirts of the town, custard yellow pegasus with a pink mane was tending to the various plants in her garden. She had an ornate watering can in her mouth, and was sprinkling the plants near the gate. She set down the watering can so she could more closely inspect the flowers. She started to sing to herself as she went about her chores, as woodland creatures scurried around the yard. She was so engrossed in her tasks at hand, she had not noticed a tall unicorn pulling a wagon coming down the road with a map in front of his face, not held there by magic.

The tall unicorn was mumbling something about missing a left turn at Albacolte. When he heard the singing. He used his magic to flick a switch on an odd looking satchel bag on his back, causing the map to retract from in front of his face. Looking for the source of the melody, he spied the yellow pegasus just over the fence line.

Finally some pony to tell me where I am, the unicorn thought.
As he neared, the pegasus picked up the watering can again to tend to more plants.

“Excuse me miss...” was all he could get out before a high pitched squeak erupted from the yellow pegasus as she darted up into a nearby tree, dropping the watering can in her haste. The surprised unicorn gawked at the spot that the pegasus had occupied just a moment before. Looking up, he spied a pair of teal eyes looking down at him from a quivering tree. Unhitching himself for the wagon, he walked toward the tree where the pegasus had hidden herself.

“Are you okay miss?” the unicorn asked in soft baritone voice. Only hearing a slight whimper come from the tree, he approached to check on the pegasus. He placed his forelegs on the tree trunk, trying to get a better look at the frightened pony.

“Miss I am sorry to have startled you, but you see I am a little lost.” The unicorn was able to say before letting out a yell and falling onto his back.

The pegasus cautiously poked her head out of her hiding spot, finally getting a look at the newcomer. His coat was light gray, almost sliver, with a short jet-black mane and tail. His red eyes were spinning in their sockets, when she noticed a small white figure standing on the unicorn's chest with carrot pointed at the unicorn's neck much like a sword, and a stone in the other paw.

“Angel!” the pegasus gasped, swooping down from her perch and grabbing the small bunny in her hooves. The small white rabbit struggled to free himself, but the pegasus held fast.

“Now, Angel,” the pegasus said in a soft but strict tone, “hat have I told you about going after other ponies? You know mommy gets startled easily and I thought you learned your lesson with Princess Luna.”

At the mention of the moon goddess' name, the bunny went ridged with a slight twitch in his eye as he remembered the fury of the young looking ruler.

“Now, you be a good little bunny and hop along, alright." the pegasus said, putting down the rabbit. She watched the rabbit run off into some nearby bushes before turning her attention back towards her mysterious visitor. The unicorn had rolled himself over so that he was sitting on the ground with his legs curled under him. He was looking down at the ground while rubbing the back of his head with one of his fore hoofs.

“Oh my goodness,” the yellow pegasus gasped, flying over to the wounded unicorn, her kind caring nature taking over. She held onto the sides of the unicorn's head with her hooves to get a better look at his injury. After examining his head for a moment, the pegasus spoke: “It looks like it will be just a lump.”

“I can feel it,” the unicorn cut in, “that rabbit of yours has got a good arm, but nothing...a...little...ice...” The unicorn trailed off as he looked up, noticing that their faces were just mere inches apart. They just stared at one another while their faces turned brighter shades of red with each passing second, until a small stone landed on top of the unicorn's head, causing him to yell out in pain again. The startled pegasus' wings locked up and she dropped to the ground letting a little “oomph” as she hit the ground with all four hooves. She quickly glared at the bush the rabbit had run off into earlier, but he was nowhere to be seen. A quiet groan from the unicorn reminded her of his presence.

“I-I am...s-so...s-sorry,” the pegasus whispered while trying to vanish behind her long mane. “He is usually more well behaved...”

Shaking off the pain a bit, the unicorn got to his hooves. “No worries, Miss. I've gotten worse from my days playing hoofball. I am sorry that I scared you again Miss.” He got no response from the pink mane, and thinking quickly he had an idea to calm down the filly.

“Where are my manners,” the unicorn exclaimed. “I haven't properly introduced myself. My mother would have my flank for being so rude. Well then, my name is Steel Arrow,” the unicorn said bowing his head, while raising his hoof to cross his chest. But he got no response from the pink mane.

“What is your name?”

“I'm...Fluttershy...” the pegasus whispered.

“I did quite catch that.”

“I'm Flutter...shy,” She trailed off.

“Oh, Fluttersky. That's a lovely name for a pegasus,” replied Steel, “ Now, I was wondering if you happen to know which way I need to go to get to Ponyville?”

“Well... you are in Ponyville, but.” replied Fluttershy, coming out from behind her mane a bit.

“Splendid! But, what is it, Ms. Sky?”

“Oh, it’s nothing. It isn't important.”

“Well it must be important if you wanted to bring it up.”

“Oh-h, O-okay then. I-it's just...”

“It's alright you can tell me.”

“M-my name I-isn't FlutterSKY, its Fluttershy. Oh, I’m sorry. My friends tell me I need to be more assertive. But, you can call me Sky, that is, if you want to.”

“You're not the one who needs to apologize. I am the one who needs to be apologizing, for calling you by the wrong name. I am a little hard of hearing. But, if is it alright with you if I shorten it to just Shy?”

“Um...yes that... would be alright.”

“Excellent, I have just one other question I thought Ponyville was a bit bigger than this, where is the rest of the town?” Steel asked, bringing one of his hooves up to massage his aching head.

“Oh yes,” Fluttershy said with start, “It is just behind those trees. You'll see it once you round the bend in the road. Are you sure you are alright?”

“It is just a little ache, nothing too serious,” said Steel as he brought down his hoof noticing a little red stain on his hoof. He quickly hid the hoof away from Fluttershy, but then he felt a warm, wet sensation run down the side of his face. He put on a nervous smile as Fluttershy stared as his head for a moment.

“Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness,” Fluttershy erupted in a panic.

As Fluttershy continued sputtering out her panic stricken phrase, Steel slowly raised up his other hoof to her face, stopping it just in front of her mouth, successfully quieting the worrying filly without startling her for once.

“I can guess you are thinking your little rabbit caused this. Well, okay, he did cause me to bleed, but it was just a lucky shot with that stone. I hit my head this morning when I woke up in my wagon, so don't be too upset with the little critter, alright?” Steel said while lowering his hoof. “But, could I trouble you for a bandage?”

“Oh, of course it’s no trouble at all.” She squeaked as she led Steel toward her cottage

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Steel followed the timid pegasus toward her house. As they crossed the small bridge spanning over an equally tiny creek, he noticed all the various bird houses that peppered the yard and a chicken coop off to one side of her yard. This is all quite odd for a pegasus, Steel thought as Fluttershy opened the door to her cottage. Most pegasi I know prefer to live in cloud houses. Even when they do live on the ground, they don't have houses that are, well, this down to earth. Hay this house is earth. He thought as he bumped into Fluttershy, causing her to let out a little squeak.

“Oh, sorry, I was just admiring your cottage,” he said with a nervous chuckle.

“Um, it is okay. I shouldn't have stopped so suddenly. I was just trying to remember where I put my first aid,” she said while trying to hide her face behind her mane again. Neither of them said anything, the pause turn into a moment, and then the moment turned awkward.

Steel broke the silence, “Should I just wait here while you find your first aid kit, or back outside?”

“Oh yes, in here would be fine.” She replied before trotting off into the adjacent room.

Steel walked over to the sofa and sat down. He looked around the small room, noticing there were more birdhouses along with all sorts of little holes dotting the wall and the small stair ways and catwalks around the room. He made a mental note to ask her if she made those houses herself. His gaze fell upon an odd-looking piece of furniture. It looked to have been constructed from a broken table with an excess of nails, some of which were not nailed in all the way. Steel tried to use his magic to bring the piece closer, only to have his head throb wildly in protest. I hope this isn't a concussion, doesn’t feel like one, he thought while bringing his hooves to his temples, trying to message away the pain. Fluttershy walked back into the room carrying a large white briefcase-like bag with a red cross on its side. Seeing Steel rubbing the sides of his head, she rushed over to the couch, setting down the kit.

“Are you alright, is your head hurting?” She asked, a little concern showing in her eyes.

“My head just started to hurt little more after I tried to levitate that table thing of yours to get a closer look,” Steel said, pointing to the object by the sofa, “That is when it started to throb even more.”

“Oh my goodness, you could have a concussion from all those hits to your head today. Now, keep your head still and follow my hoof with your eyes.” Fluttershy said, bringing her hoof up in front of his eyes, and she began to move it around sporadically. About a minute later, she gave a quick sigh of relief

“Well, I can say it doesn't look like you have a concussion, but you should have a professional look at it.”

“Alright, do I need to add nurse or doctor in front of your name too, to get it right?” Steel said with a chuckle.

“Oh no, I am not a medical pony at all.”

“Then how do you know so much about medicine,” Steel looked at the large first aid kit, “if you don't mind me asking?”

“Well, I am just really good with animals and I am closest thing this town has to an animal doctor, and I have a friend who crashes a lot when she is practicing her new tricks; so I read up on the subject and got some training from Nurse Redheart. Oh, I'm sorry, I don't mean to talk so much, I can be a bit of loudmouth at times.”

“It alright Ms. Shy, I am told I can be a good listener. Are there bandages in that kit?”

“Oh yes.” Fluttershy squeaked, as she opened up the kit and brought out a piece of gauze, a roll of wrap, and a tube of ointment. She then set to work on his head wounds.

“This may sting a little,” she said applying a small drop of the fluid onto a piece of gauze. Steel winced as she applied the bandage. Then she proceeded to wrap the gauze to his head.

“All done,” Fluttershy said in her soft voice a few moments later.

“Thanks, it feels a lot better already.” Steel said as he got off the sofa and walked over a nearby mirror to see Fluttershy's hoofwork. He found it to be on par with any professional he had ever seen.

“Hum, I am usually the one fixing things up.” Steel muttered.

“Why's, that?” Fluttershy asked

“Why is what?” Steel said snapping out of his thoughts.

“Oh, I am sorry I don't mean to pry. But, you said that you're the one who is usually fixing things. Sorry, you don't have to answer if you don't want to.”

“Oh yeah, w-well that is to s-say,” Steel stuttered in embarrassment, “I am a repair pony and I am the one other ponies usually call to fix their stuff.” Pointing to the two black gears that made up his cutie mark.

“Oh okay, so that must be your shop they just finished.”

“Wait, my shop is finished?”

“Yes, I have been watching them work on it every time I go into town, they finished about a week ago.”

“That’s fantastic, I will have to thank cousin Cobalt and his crew for a quick job, and I of course have to thank you for the wonderful care you provided me.”

“Oh, that's not necessary.”

“No, no I insist. It’s the least I can do,” Steel said as he trotted over to the odd piece of furniture that was once table.

“I might not be able to save the table top but the stand is salvageable,” he said while inspecting the piece of furniture. “I could just put on a new piece and it shouldn't take more than an afternoon. In fact, I think I have some nice walnut that would do the trick.” Steel said as he turned to head out the front door.

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Fluttershy sat stunned for a moment before getting up to follow Steel.

“No you don't have to go through all this trouble for me.” she said meekly.

“It is no trouble Ms. Shy, especially for a cute filly like you.”

Flutter stopped short of the little bridge at Steel's words. He continued on, Did I really just say that out loud? A loud clank of hoof on metal interrupted his thoughts. His hoof sent a piece of metal flying a short distance in front of him. From behind Steel, Fluttershy let out a loud gasp as she darted forward scooping up the object as she started to cry. In her hooves, Fluttershy held on to the smashed remains of what was her watering can. The container was smashed almost flat and both the handle and spout where just barely hanging onto the container. Steel stands froze in place, his eyes wide with fear and sorrow.

“I am sorry Fluttershy,” Steel offers weakly looking down upon the sobbing pegasus, “I must have landed on it when I fell.”

“It was a gift from my mother,” she says in between sobs, “before she...”

Fluttershy's sobbing doubled after she just barely got out the last part. Steel was feeling bad enough, he wished for one of the goddess rulers to send him to the moon for his crime. But before he could try and comfort the crying pegasus, Steel felt himself being lifted off the ground. For a split second he though, Next stop the moon, before he was spun around like a top and then slammed back down to the ground, not noticing the purple aura around him.

The next thing he saw was a giant red blur coming right at him as he braced for impact.

Author's Notes

First I would like to thank The Paragon For the awesome cover art. You can find more of his work at http://theparagon.deviantart.com/.

Secondly I would like to thank one of my pegasister for editing the draft.

I did borrow the Luna part from Andrew Talon's Fanfic “Progress”. You should check it out. It is quite entertaining.

I also borrow the table thing from the episode Stare Master.

Also I hope you caught my reference to an old Bugs Bunny joke.

Hope you all enjoyed my first Fanfic. Stay tuned for Chapter two.

Comments

[.Tzeentch.]

love the story so far

if you want you can set you'r chapters to password then get preread

[NSFWKazama]

INB4 Twilight and Big Mac seeing things out of context and overreacting!

[MrFahrenheit89]

Okay i know that there would be a couple of grammatical errors. I don't have any one else to edit this for me. I did my best, but I will fix the errors every one has point out to me and re up load the story later this weekend.

Thanks for the input. keep it comming

[MrFahrenheit89]

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Thanks for the feed back. I do the best I can with rereads, I do wish I had another set of eyes to go over my fiction before I post it.

I don't know why you would think steel looks like Phoenix Wright. But, now that you mention it, he kind of does. I guess the artist I commissioned took some part from the that game and the pony I generated from Deviant Art.

[MrFahrenheit89]

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You'll see in Chapter two after I fix the middle part of the chapter.

[MrFahrenheit89]

I would like to apologize to everyone who read the story before today. I put up the wrong file. Here is the right one with a second pair of eyes looking at it.