Hidden by Shadows

by Authora97

Finding Dandelion

The party was still going on but Fluttershy, hating crowds, left with permission from Authora. She quietly trotted home, slightly worried about Angel and her other little animals. But it was mainly Angel. Her turquoise eyes looked up at the setting sun, the varying shades of red, orange, yellow and purple made her realize she was at that party later than she though he was.

“Angel must be angry. I missed his dinner.” Fluttershy thought.

She began running, knowing Angel would be a little miffed at her missing dinner. The last time she was late he got really mad, by her standards. It got even worse when she made him try to eat a carrot for dinner instead of a fancy salad.

A familiar cottage came into her view. A few small birds flew up to Fluttershy the second she was seen.

“I’m so sorry I’m late. The party went on longer than I thought.” Fluttershy explained. The birds had none of it and continued giving tweeting a mile a minute. Due to them all talking at once she barely understood.

Until she heard something coming from her cottage. All she could think of was whatever made that noise.

Fluttershy ran inside and found a bunch of animals crowded by one of her couches.

“What are you little guys staring at?” Two squirrels moved aside and revealed the mystery guest.

She looked a little shorter than Spike. Her round head had near yellow spikes, they were so light they would almost be white, on her head and back. Her scales were dandelion yellow, except the ones on her stomach and ear fins were lemon yellow. Her round eyes were a beautiful shade of sunset orange. One more color colored her scaled skin.

Blood red.

“Oh my goodness let me help you sweetie.” Fluttershy exclaimed. She flew over towards the yellow dragon, “Don’t crowd around the poor thing now.” The huge crowd of forest animals backed away.

Fluttershy gently picked the dragon up, not even questioning how she came into Equestria, and began cleaning her wounds.

They were mostly on her arms, legs, and one medium sized gash on her tail. Her golden cheeks shined with tears as the last of them were cleaned.

“No, no, don’t cry little dragon.” Fluttershy comforted as she began to wrap the small dragon’s wounds. “So can you tell me your name, if it’s alright with you?”

The dragon nodded.

“My mommy called me Dandelion but my aunts called me Ovewbite.” She sounded almost like a little filly. She couldn’t even saw her r’s properly.

“Why would anypony call you such a rude name?” Dandelion opened her mouth to reveal a large hole in her gums, were a tooth used to be.

“I had a weally big tooth wight hewe. It fell off when I was inside that mean fowest.” Dandelion explained.

Fluttershy finished fixing up Dandelion and placed her down on the couch.

“You said you had a...mommy...is...is she a dragon too?” Fluttershy asked; a little scared of what Dandelion would say.

“No. She’s a pony. We came hewe a few days ago. But we went into the weiwd fowest. My aunt thought it would be funny to push me into a bush. I twied to find Mommy again but she was...she was...” Dandelion began crying at her unfortunate circumstances. She missed her mother terribly.

Fluttershy began stroking Dandelion’s back, letting the tears fall onto her butter yellow coat. Dandelion just kept crying about how she couldn’t find her mother.

*THUMP* *THUMP* *THUMP*

She heard about a minute or so later. Looking up she noticed Angel Bunny pointing at his stomach and falling dramatically on the floor, trying to look starved.

Fluttershy gently pushed Dandelion back.

“I have to go feed Angel. I’m already late for his dinner and he gets angry when I forget that. You’ll be okay sitting here?” Dandelion nodded. “Ok, now be sure to stay here.”

While making Angel his favorite salad, Fluttershy began to wonder what she would do about this poor dragon. Dandelion said her mother was a pony, but the only pony with a dragon that she knew of was Twilight and Spike wasn’t yellow. And what pony would let their sister do something so rude like leaving a baby dragon alone in the Everfree Forest?

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An hour later, Fluttershy had Dandelion tucked into her bedroom asleep. She was going to see Twilight and try to find this poor baby’s mother inside the Everfree. She must’ve been searching the entire Everfree for this child and could be in a worse condition.

She barely noticed the walk, for Fluttershy’s thought kept coming back to that poor Dandelion. She loses probably the only family she’s ever known, in a place she doesn’t know, and lost a tooth probably well before it was ever supposed to fall out.

Just when she was about to knock, Pipsqueak opened the door.

“Sorry Stutter but I...oh Fluttershy. What are you doing here?” She asked. Fluttershy was taken aback by the name, but remembered that was what Pip called her older sister.

“Oh, uh, yes, well...I came here to talk to Twilight about something. Is she here?” Fluttershy whispered.

“Yeah, I think she’s doing some research or some egghead thing... TWILIGHT!” Pipsqueak yelled into the library. “FLUTTERSHY SAYS SHE NEEDS TO TALK TO YOU!” The door opened wider and before Fluttershy could thank the filly, Pip grabbed her head. “Dang it, I get it okay! No yelling inside a library! Sorry Fluttershy.” Fluttershy looked confused, she saw Twilight walking towards her and Pip floating off towards her eldest sister trapped inside a white magical aura.

“That was strange. Maybe Pip got a headache from the yelling."Fluttershy thought.

“Is there something you needed Fluttershy?” Twilight asked her.

“Oh yes, can we talk somewhere more private, I don’t want anypony hearing.” Fluttershy asked. Twilight motioned for her room upstairs.

“So what is it Fluttershy?” Twilight asked happily.

“I went back to my cottage...and I... fhadn” Fluttershy mumbled.

“You what?” Twilight asked.

“I fou-ndrgn.”

“Didn’t quite catch that Fluttershy.” Twilight said.

“I found a dragon!” Fluttershy said. Twilight stopped for a second. She found a what?

“You found a what?” Twilight asked. At least she wasn’t freaking out. “You found a dragon in your cottage! Was it big? How did it find you? How did in even get into Equestria?” That much. Her right eye had slightly begun to twitch, and that half-crazed smile came on her face.

“Her name is Dandelion. She looks like she’s a little younger than Spike. The poor little thing, she says she got lost inside the Everfree Forest by this mean pony. I found her all cut up and bruised. She fell asleep just before I came here.” Twilight calmed down just a little bit, enough for her face to come slowly back to normal. “Twilight, she said she lost her whole family inside the Everfree Forest. I think we should go in a look for them. They must be worried sick by now.”

“You? Fluttershy? Want to willingly go into the Everfree Forest? To find a couple of ponies? For a dragon?” Twilight asked; shocked by her friend going out for a dragon she just met.That, and she was sure she had heard the name Dandelion before but couldn’t remember where.

“Yes. It may shocking but Dandelion was so sad to be separated from her family...” Fluttershy began talking but Spike walking up to the two mares got her to turn her words into whispers.

Twilight, did I hear Fluttershy right? Did she say a dragon?” Spike asked his long time friend.

Twilight and Fluttershy looked at each other, then the purple dragon. Unsure of what to tell him.

“Uh-Spike, listen...” Twilight began. Fluttershy held her hoof up to Twilight.

“Yeah, she came from the Everfree forest. She says her mother is probably lost inside. I couldn’t stand the thought of her being away from her family.”

Spike looked at Fluttershy shocked for a minute. There was another dragon in Ponyville. It had gotten hurt too. Maybe she didn’t know she was the only dragon being raised by a pony. He certainly did til a few seconds ago.

“Awesome, when do we get started?” Spike said, full of excitement. Fluttershy grew a gentle smile. Twilight looked on confused. Still trying to figure out where she heard the name Dandelion.

“Sorry Spike. She fell asleep a while ago.” Fluttershy turned to Twilight. “Besides, I should be going. Who knows what might be happening at the cottage right now. Good night Twilight, good night Spike.”

“Night Fluttershy,” Spike waved a purple hand at the pegasus. A look of realization came over Twilight.

“Goodnight Authora, Pipsqueak.” Fluttershy said as she walked out the door to the library.

Spike was ready for bed, tired from the party earlier and news of a new dragon. He was about to jump into his bed when he noticed Twilight hadn’t moved.

He walked back and tried all of the trick he knew; waving a hand over her eyes, snapping his fingers, poking her back. The whole arsenal. He was about to give up, when she finally spoke.

“Spike, do you remember the last time we heard of a Dandelion?” She asked him, that look still painted across her face.

“No, why? Is something wrong?” Spike asked, worriedly.

“Dandelion was the name I heard when we met Authora, Flutterwing and Pipsqueak. Whoever her family is, they aren’t lost in the Everfree. They must be hiding in Ponyville. Or worse, they decided to wait around the town for the perfect time to attack.” Spike knew this was just the beginning of Twilight’s crazy rant so he walked to his bed, preparing to sleep.

What neither of them saw however, was the dark pink unicorn hiding below the stairs. Her heart nearly stopping for half a second.

“Dandelion, they found my little Dandelion.”She thought.

Authora was a little heartbroken earlier. Her sister had told her and Flutter about Twilight somehow catching the thought giver spell and how she knew it was the same magical field that made the huge scorch mark.

But it was a little better now that she knew Dandelion was being taken care of by the most caring and considerate mare of them all.

All she had left to do was get a house, a job, and find something to do about her voice then everything would be normal again.

Authora also needed some sleep. She found Pipsqueak lying on the couch, asleep thankfully. After making sure Twilight and Spike wouldn’t stay up all night, she walked into the spare bedroom and drifted off to sleep. A smile across her face.

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A small breeze came near the Everfree forest, not to strange. It began swirling though. Faster, faster, and faster it went, nearly creating a tornado. Storms clouds came over head. Not even 50 feet from the black scorch mark. A loud thunder was suddenly heard. A mini tornado appeared and swirled until it hit the grass.

*BOOM*

When the dust settled, a stallion was revealed. He looked to be slightly larger than Big Macintosh. His coat was ultra-black, his wings were fully extended and at least 3 feet long each. When he opened his eyes, they glowed an eerie dark blue.

“Thought you could run from me dear Abigail? You can’t get away that easily. I’m not letting you go so easily this time.” His voice was dark, almost evil. His eyes read rage far beyond that which anypony has ever felt. He moved them towards the Everfree Forest, then towards the town Ponyville.

The Everfree could hide him until he could unfold his plan. Right now, he needed to preserve his strength. If he wanted to get Abigail then he would need all the strength he could get.

In Twilight’s library, Authora jumped awake from a nightmare. She dreamt he came for her again. Removing anything or pony blocking his path to her. She laughed, knowing it was only a dream.

For now

Author's Note:

Sorry if it sucks. My computer was running a little slow so it took longer than I wanted to write this.
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