Fluttershy was feeling very content lately. The squirrels had new babies, the cricket's song was especially cheerful... life was truly wonderful. Whenever she felt this content, she always felt like she could do anything if she put her mind to it.
"Oh dear." Fluttershy said, her keen senses picking up the sound of a struggling bunny. Instantly, she flew from the cabin, heading straight for the river. It seemed a beaver's dam had broken, as the river was much higher and faster than usual. She spotted a tiny baby bunny struggling to stay above the water. It continued to be swiftly carried down the river, which she knew ended in a waterfall.
"Oh... oh dear!" She flew down, trying to get a grip on the little bunny with her hooves, since it was too small for her to risk getting a grip with her mouth, especially with the hectic pace of the river water. However, the rushing water meant that she didn't have enough time to safely scoop the bunny up!
Again and again, Fluttershy flew down and back up, trying to safely retrieve the bunny, but no matter how many times she tried, the bunny was either moving too fast for her to safely grab, or her hooves would slip. "Oh Fluttershy!" She chided herself "Why do you have to be so bad at this?". The happy feeling from earlier had completely left, filling her with two emotions: The desire to save the bunny, and shame for not having saved it already.
Over and over, she tried. Again and again she reached down, only to have her hooves come up empty. She redoubled her efforts, until she saw a waterfall coming up, and realized just how far the bunny had already been swept. She concentrated all her power on saving the bunny. Unknown to Fluttershy, a soft emerald light began to glow above her head. It grew, until the shape of a wicked-looking, large, jagged horn was visible, protruding from her forehead. Slowly, the glow began to wrap itself around the bunny, and was no effort on Fluttershy's part, the bunny was lifted up, and placed gently down on the shore.
Fluttershy was so relieved and confused at once, she didn't watch where she was going. With a loud thud, she slammed headfirst into a tree. A moment passed, as the tiny bunny hopped up to its motionless savior. When she came to, she was looking up at the little bunny she saved, as it sat on her. "Oh.. good, you're okay..." Fluttershy muttered, completely dazed. As her mental faculties began to return, she remembered what happened. "H...How did I do that?" She said, sitting up quickly. The bunny tumbled off her chest. "Ah! I'm sorry!" she said, catching the bunny with a hoof, and setting it down gently on the ground.
She slowly stood up and tried to put her thoughts together. She'd never head of Pegasi ever having that kind of magic before. "I... I should go speak to Twilight." She said, nodding to herself. "She'll know what to do..." She began to walk back towards Ponyville, only looking back to see that the bunny had hopped away. She knew that bunny's family, and knew that it would be found quickly, though she wished she could deliver it to them. She felt that finding out what happened was very important though, and she didn't know why.
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Twilight was reading yet another dusty old tome, this one titled The Ins and Outs of Pegasus Relocation Theory. It was an ancient book, written before the uniting of the pony races, when Unicorns thought Pegasi were birds and had to fly south for the winter. Twilight shook her head as she read, silently muttering to herself. Some of these old tomes were interesting, but this was just painful for the librarian to read. This whole period of their history, when ponies were measured by their species instead of by the pony's own merits...
A quiet knocking on the door was enough to make her look up. She closed the book, a little happy to not have to finish it, and called out. "Come in!"
The door slowly pushed open, and Fluttershy quietly stepped in. "Oh, were you reading? I'm sorry, I'll just go..." She said, turning back around.
Twilight sighed and walked over to her. "No, it wasn't a very good book anyway. What do you need, Fluttershy?" She said, smiling gently. Fluttershy hesitated, then turned back around, looking at Twilight for a moment, before responding.
"Twilight... can pegasi... use magic?" She managed to ask, quietly.
Twilight looked confused. "Um, well, they have their own brand of pegasus magic so they can influence the weather, but I have the feeling that isn't what you're talking about." She responded, "What brought this up?"
Fluttershy stood quietly, feeling very self-conscious. She slowly explained what happened, as Twilight listened carefully. Twilight's expression changed as she listened, going from curious to bewildered. "Well..." Twilight began, "It's possible you created a strong air current to save the bunny without realizing it..." Twilight began, slowly, "Because I've never heard of a Pegasus using Unicorn magic."
"Oh... I see..." Fluttershy said, "Thank you." She turned around, about to leave.
"We... could run a few tests, if you'd like, though." Twilight continued, noticing Fluttershy's reaction. She had no idea why this was bothering Fluttershy so much, but she knew not to make light of something like this. Besides, her other theory was flawed. No pegasus magic she knew of ever caused an aura to appear, that kind of magic was firmly in the realm of unicorn magic. Fluttershy seemed worried, but the fact that her friend was willing to help her in this made her feel a bit better.
"T...Thank you, Twilight." She said, smiling softly.
Moving deeper into the library, Twilight began pulling out various books, as Fluttershy looked on. It was going to be a long day, they could both feel it...
Interesting...
Although I'm sure there are out there, this is the first Fluttershy changeling fiction I've seen. I was this close to just writing one myself
Whelp, commence read. High expectations ahoy!
I hope you won't make some cliche plot.
hope this wont be a
'x is changeling and must convert everything not changeling into changeling'.
those are relly annoying
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That is something I can guarantee that it is not.
This is a horsie story
Hm, interesting. Although I think Fluttershy would have looked around for any unicorn before deciding it was her magic. I would like to see more, kind sir.
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Welp, if I'd thought of that'd I'd have used that.
As it is though, let's say she somehow felt herself using the magic.
2158520 there is a one shot, but it's supposed to be a guessing game and doesn't focus on her being a changeling.
with this, Pinkie will be the only one missing a long detailed story about being a changeling. unless i missed something.
Let me guess. Fluttershy shall rule as queen overlord of ALL Equestria, dominating Queen Chrysalis and having her friends as loyal servents.
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Mmmmnope.
2159053 Awww. I wanted to see her horrified reaction as Twilight suddenly get's mind controlled, then Fluttershy hiding herself into the darkest crack in fear of hurting her friends, only for Chrysalis to capture them al and threaten to turn them into changelings, only for Fluttershy go into rage mode, then bring peace to all the land,
At least, that is how I would have done it....
This is an interesting story. However, I do have one problem with it: When you're having two or more characters talking to each other, you don't keep the dialogue in the same paragraph. You start a new one each time the character talking changes. For example, this
Should be this
Or something like that. I'm no author, so I don't know if I divided that up well enough. Just though you should know.
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Sheesh, yer postin' like it's an irreparable problem. Not so! It is already fixed.
2159022 Pinkie's got one. She's actually a group of changelings. It's called "When They Found Us." It's really very good.
2159544 Oooh, thanks.
2159544 there's another one where pinkie is chrysalis's sister as well
A little fast paced for my taste, but otherwise not bad.
Well, it took nearly a year, but I think there's finally a changeling fic for the entire mane 6! Let's see, Twilight in Mirror's Image, Applejack in The Irony of Applejack, Rainbow Dash in Forever A Changeling, Pinkie in That One Who's Name I Can't Remember But I'm Fairly Certain Is A Pun, Rarity in The Three Sisters, and now finally Fluttershy has her very own changeling story, all about her!
Hooray! Let's celebrate!
Hmmmm.
Yes, I do quite like it. More?
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There was one with Fluttershy, a while back, but it was a little oneshot and ironically flew under the radar, very much Fluttershy-style.
The only flaw I see is that you didn't say what happened to the horn! Explanation? yes please!
It makes sense. I have my own fan theories about the details behind flutterling, but I do not want to spoil anything if our ideas happen to overlap.
Dang, someone beat me to it.
Edit: Read through it, and I must say I'm intrigued. The pacing is a bit hasty, but I think it's a bit soon to be judging this fic on just a little over a thousand words.
So I'm going to watch this with great interest.
The premise is unoriginal (cliche is just a nice way to put it) but I feel that your spin will be rather unique. I doubt you can break the cliche endings though... Bah, insulting way to say that I like it.
Also, I'm crude. 69 likes! (Happy for the 0 dislikes!)
Hmmm... Why do I have a feeling that this line:
is going to be quite meaningful to the story... Welp, gotta read more!
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I got the impression that the horn itself was never visible... merely a glow outlining where the horn would be if it weren't hidden.
2161441 Really? what's it called?
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All of them use the same series of images as cover pics. On DA, there's an artist who made all of them. I think it was a commission,but I'm not sure. Use Google Image Search to find the artist; I'm too lazy.
I don't know! The title and description are completely irrelevant to that question!
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Oh no...
Went through the ol' files to find this. Very interesting, 12-year-old me.
Hmm very interesting that's what I say I have no idea what's going on with her body and how the world did she save the baby bunny Pegasus do not have magic so she asked Twilight about it hopefully she knows what's going on and I have a feeling we all know what's going on