> Teaching Fluttershy > by Antonio Eclair > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1: Brony freakout > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 1 "How can you like this show?" Sylvia. "Yeah man, isn't this a little girl’s show?" Orlando added as he sat down next to Sylvia. "Just let me watch it, it's really good and I'm sure you'll enjoy it too if you give it a chance." I replied as I sat down on the carpet, it was one of our usual get togethers. "Fine, but after this we're watching my movie." Sylvia said eagerly, but first she had to sit through thirty minutes of ponies. "We are not watching that same movie again." Orlando protested, Sylvia had a tendency to repeat movies whenever she found one she really liked, last thing I and Orlando wanted was to watch it again. "Yeah, that movie is so boring, not like these ponies." I said in a mocking tone. "Shut up and watch your ponies." Sylvia said, soundly slightly annoyed. I managed to sneak in another episode of My Little Pony before my friends decided they wanted to watch something else. We watched a few more movies until it was time for them to leave. They left rather late and I was feeling pretty tired. "Goodnight mom, goodnight dad!" I shouted from my room before closing the door. "Wait, Peter did you take a shower?" My mom asked, from behind my almost closed door. "Oh dang I forgot about tomorrow." I said, I forgot my mom wanted me to accompany her to her job. "Don't worry, if you don't want to go you don't have to take it." She said before walking out leaving me up to the task of deciding. "Might as well take it just in case." I thought as I grabbed my pajamas from my closet and left my room towards the bathroom. I had just finished my bath and was about to leave the bathroom when all of a sudden, the lights went out, at this point it was just past nine at night and my parents and my brother were still awake, so I didn't worry much about it since my dad would take care of it, most likely just a blown out fuse. In the meantime I went back to my room to watch some videos on my laptop. I was about to doze off when I heard some noises come from my closet, I didn’t really mind it since something had probably just fallen down. The lights had returned by this point so I went downstairs to get my water bottle, I made sure not to wake up my dog that was soundly sleeping at the other end of my bed, I closed my door and proceeded to the kitchen. “So what happened to the lights?” I asked my dad as he walked in from the garage door. “I don’t know, all the fuses in the box were fine, must have been something else.” My dad answered, he walked in to the kitchen as well and grabbed a glass from the cabinet and filled it with water. “Well that’s a real mystery. Goodnight, dad.” I said walking out of the kitchen and towards the stairs. “Hey are you going with your mother tomorrow?” He asked as I started walking up the stairs. “Don’t know yet!” I yelled back as I got closer to my room. I was outside my room when I heard a rather familiar voice coming from the other side. “Did I leave the video playing?” I wondered as I opened the door. What I saw shocked me, there was what at first glance looked like a large, yellow dog on my bed but upon further inspection, it was actually a pony playing around with my dog, apparently this “pony” didn’t notice my presence so I walked silently behind it and extended my arm to poke it. “Flutter...shy... is that you?” I asked as I gave a light tap on her back. “ECKK!” she yelled as I tapped her, obviously like in the show she was easily scared. “Shhh! don’t scream please.” I said as I quickly covered her mouth with my hand but this only made her more frightened and out of fright she bit my hand, it was a rather weak bite but it was enough to scrape me and make me bleed lightly. “Ow! Ow ow ow.” I cried out as I waved my hand around the air. “Dude what happened?” I heard my brother yell from his room. “Um… Nothing I was watching My Little Pony but I reached to grab something and hit my hand against the wall.” I replied, it was the first thing I thought of, thankfully he believed it. At this point I was sitting on the floor holding my slightly bleeding hand I turned over to see Fluttershy who was still sitting on my bed but now she had a look of guilt on her face. “I-I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hurt you…” she said, cowering just the slightest bit. “It's alright, don’t sweat it. It’s just a small cut.” I replied as I stood up from the floor. “Here let me see it, I’ll put some bandages on, I mean if that is okay with you of course…” She said as she grabbed my hand with her hoof, I was finding it hard to believe, Fluttershy was here in my world holding my hand, I acted like if this was normal, I’ve read so many fan fictions about things like this that I didn’t mind how she got here. “Nah. It’ll be fine I promise.” I smiled letting her know that it was okay. “Oh… sorry I really didn’t mean too it’s just that… I don’t know where I am… Or how I got here.” Her voice was so soft, yet I could detect a sad tone. “Well I would like to know too, but you’re in a planet called earth... Well I don’t know if Equestria is a planet or a country and well this planet is filled with beings like me called humans, also animals and insects,” I said making sure she knew where she was, she still seemed scared of me, but I let that go for now. “Wait you know about Equestria? Do you know where it is?” She asked, her eyes widened as she hoped I had the directions towards her home. “Sadly I don’t, but don’t worry I’m sure Twilight and the others are working on getting here to take you back.” I said hopefully this would give her some hope. “Oh…Well I guess you’re right…” Her expression quickly changed. “Come on don’t be so sad, everything is going to be okay.” I grabbed her shoulder so she could feel safe. “Wait…How do you know me? And my friends names?” She asked slowly backing away from me. “Well… I’ll tell you but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow because as you can see it’s… pretty late and I’m rather sleepy so… Are you willing to trust me and wait until morning?” I said looking at her in the eyes, she had some fear and doubt in her face. “Come on... I promise I won’t hurt you. “ I added, extending my hand out in a friendly manner. “Well… I-I guess you’re right…” She answered looking away yet she still reached out her hoof to grab my hand, which was a good sign. “Perfect, now give me a minute to prepare the bed for you.” I said quickly heading towards my closet. I grabbed a few pillows and some blankets and set up a bed the rolled out from under mine for whenever I had visit over. After a few minutes I had set it up for Fluttershy to sleep in. “The bed is ready. Make yourself at home!” I said as I pointed at the bed, she still seemed scared of me and didn’t say anything, she sat in the bed I brought out and then she climbed onto my bed which she seemed to find more comfortable. “Umm… if it’s okay with you…I-I’d like to sleep on this bed…I mean if that’s alright with you…” She timidly requested. “No problem! If you need something, a blanket or whatever just wake me up and let me know, ok?” I began to lay down on the other bed while Fluttershy tucked herself under the sheets of my bed. “Oh, but I don’t want to bother you…” She said finally settled under the sheets. “Not at all, you’re my guest. you won’t be bothering me in the slightest.” “Oh okay…” “Good night Fluttershy.” I said letting out a small yawn. “Good night…um…” “Peter.” “Oh, good night Peter.” With that we ended our conversation, after a few minutes she was sound asleep. “Wow this is great! My wish came true, Fluttershy is actually here!” I was rather happy at the strange occurrence. It's not everyday that a cartoon character just appears in real life. But why? And how? > Chapter 2: Breakfast > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2: Breakfast There was a loud knocking on my door that quickly made me wake up. I checked my clock first and saw that is was already 8:30. I noticed Fluttershy was facing away from the door, which was great, because that way I could just put a pillow over her face so it would be covered up and not visible through the door. “Who is it?” I asked before opening up the door, making sure that Fluttershy’s face wasn’t visible. “Your mom. Anyways I’m off to work. See you later honey.” She said, just about to head downstairs. “Wait.” I said leaving my room but shutting the door just in case. “What is it?” She asked, stopping at the middle of the stairs and looking up at me. “Are my dad and brother here?” I asked, looking down the hallway towards the direction of my brother’s room. “No they left about half an hour ago, why?” She asked now continuing her way down the stairs. “Nothing, just wanted to make sure if I was gonna be alone to do some stuff.” I tried to sound convincing and not as if I was hiding something. “What kind of stuff?” Her tone changed a little like if she wanted to know the truth. “Um…Just some cooking and stuff, you know the usual stuff I do when I’m alone.” I tried not to make eye contact, as this could end up in a misunderstood statement. “Hmm… Okay but just clean up the kitchen when you’re done okay?” She said as she opened the front door and looking for her car keys. “Yeah, no problem, see you later.” I said as I backed up to my room, hopefully Fluttershy hasn’t woken up yet. Once I heard my mom leave, I then proceeded to enter my room thankfully Fluttershy was still asleep. “Dang, she sure is heavily sleeper.” I took the pillow of her face so she wouldn’t get hot, Seeing as I still had time I decided to take a bath, I walked over to my closet and got some clothes and left the room, this time I didn’t close the door, just in case Fluttershy got up and wanted to get something or wanted to look for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I turned on the water in the shower I couldn’t stop thinking about how I was going to hide Fluttershy from my parents, I mean they know who she is, heck they watch the cartoon with me sometimes so that’s no big deal but they just see her as an animal and not like a thinking being, so the problem isn’t them finding her, the problem is whether she’ll stay or not. All this bothered me greatly and I couldn’t stop thinking about it as I took a bath, I’d come up with solutions but would quickly find a downside for it. Finally I was done with my bath, so I dressed thankfully I brought clothes with me and left towards my room. As I got closer I could hear Fluttershy humming a tune, this of course indicated me that she had woken up. “Good morning Fluttershy, have a good night’s sleep?” I asked walking in to the room, I found her making the beds, which was great, I mean I was going to do them but her help is appreciated. “Oh! Good morning I didn’t hear you coming… I made the beds, I hope you don’t mind…” she answered timidly. “No problem. I was going to do them but thanks for the help.” I threw in a smile so she wouldn’t be scared or anything. “Oh okay then…Um could you tell me where the bathroom is? I would love to take a bath… I mean if that’s alright with you.” Good so ponies also take baths in the morning like humans. “Um sure no problem, follow me.” I did a hand gesture signaling for her to follow, I took her to the bathroom down the hallway, the one where I had taken my bath a few minutes before. “Okay here it is, I’m not sure how showers work in Equestria but this knob is for the cold water and this one is for the hot water.” I gave her a small tutorial on how to turn on the water and what knobs are for the different temperatures. “Oh don’t worry I know how they work…” She said, she talked in a rather low voice but since there wasn’t much noise I could still hear her. “Okay, I’m going downstairs to make some breakfast, if you need anything just shout, ok?” I asked before leaving the bathroom. “Okay.” She answered, it didn’t sound like she had anything else to say so I left the room, closing the door behind me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Hm… What should I make?” It was rather hard thinking of something suitable for a human and pony to eat. “I could make eggs and bacon…wait they don’t eat bacon.” I kept looking through the refrigerator but still couldn’t come up with anything. “Let see… Here we go!” I was searching in the food cabinets and found some pancake mix. “I’m sure ponies eat pancakes, I mean they eat cupcakes, cake, muffins and all that, who says they can’t eat this?” I hurried to get the batter ready and get the pan hot. After a few minutes I had about a dozen done, I decided to make a few more, I was about to pour in the batter for the next one when I heard a rather low voice coming from upstairs. I walked up the stairs and knocked on the bathroom door. “Fluttershy were you calling me?” “Yes so if I bothered you but could you bring me a towel please? I mean if it isn’t a problem of course.” She said from the other side of the door. “Yeah no problem, I’ll be right back.” I walked over to a room in the hallway, that’s where we kept all the towels and some blankets; I grabbed 2 just in case. “Here you go.” I said knocking on the door. “Um…well the door is open and I’m still inside the tub…” I heard her answering, this made me feel rather uncomfortable, I was a bit timid with females and even though she is just a pony I still feel rather weird on the fact that she is after all a girl. I walked in trying not to look at her just in case. “Here, I put them on towel rack.” “Oh, ok thank you.” She responded, moving away the shower curtain and reaching out to grab the towel. “Once you’re done, come downstairs, I made some breakfast.” I said quickly leaving the bath room, trying to avoid any eye contact. “Okay, I’ll be done in minute…” she said, with that said I went back to the kitchen to finish the last pancakes and to quickly make the eggs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was just about finish when I heard Fluttershy coming down the stairs. “Oh it smells good, what did you make.” Fluttershy said as she walked into the kitchen. “Well I made pancakes and scrambled eggs, I hope you like them, if not I’ll make you something else.” I said putting the batch of eggs on the table. “Yes I like it, don’t worry I’ll eat them, no need to over work.” She said taking a seat on the table, which had two plates with a fork next to each one. “Well, everything is ready you can start eating.” I sat down on the other end from where Fluttershy was.” “Mm. This tastes wonderful.” She said taking in a piece of her pancake. “Oh yeah I forgot.” I quickly got up and went to the fridge; I forgot to grab the maple syrup. “Here, put some of this on it’ll taste better.” Once again I forgot weather or not they had this in Equestria but I let it pass. “So, there are some questions I want to ask you and I’m sure there are some you want to ask me, you can go first no problem.” “Well, there is one thing, well actually two things.” She said putting down her fork. “Ask away.” I said prompting her to ask the question “Well, how do you know me and my friends and why are you being so nice to me?” She asked, looking over at me. “Well…You see, here in this world you and your friends are what we call a cartoon, and this cartoons are a series of moving pictures, and well your cartoon is a favorite of mine and many other people that go by the community name of “bronies” and well the reason that I’m so nice to you is because your my favorite pony out of the six of your friends.” As I said that last part she instantly blushed. “Another reason being is that this world is very different to Equestria.” “What do you mean?” She asked “You see this world isn’t exactly filled with the friendliest people, in fact most of the time some country is in war with another. Also there are a lot of mean people in this world that if they were to get their hands on you they would do horrible things, they would sell you to scientist who would study you, they would most probably open you up, they would probably show you off as some kind of attraction, and maybe even worst things and no I’m not saying this to scare you I’m saying it cause that’s how things go in this world.” I looked over at her, she had a frighten look on her face. “Don’t worry Fluttershy, as long as you’re here I won’t let anybody take you away or let them do anything to you.” I extended my hand and placed it on top of her hoof so she would feel safe. “Thank you, Peter.” She said, it sounded like she was really scared “No problem, there is only one thing I want to ask you.” I answered taking my hand back to my side of the table. “What is it?” She asked. “How did you get here? Like what happened, or what was the last thing you were doing before you were teleported here?” I asked, I needed to know, this really intrigued me. “Well…um….um I was, I was taking care of my animals when all of a sudden there was this light that dazed me and all of a sudden I ended up in here.” She seemed to have taken some time to answer but that was okay, I doubt she could tell a lie. “Hm, that sounds strange but whatever the reason I’m sure the other girls went to seek aid from the princess.” I said before finishing up my breakfast. “Yeah I hope…” She said, she had also finished her breakfast at this point. “Well I’m going to wash the dishes and then I can show you the cartoon of you and your friends.” I said picking up the empty plates and heading over to the faucet. “Oh yes please, I’m rather intrigued about this cartoon. Do you want me to help you wash the dishes.” “Don’t worry I’ll be done in a jiffy, if you want go sit in the couch, I’ll be right there to tell you more about “your” cartoon.” I pointed towards the living room where the couch was, I wasn’t sure how to approach the whole cartoon thing and how to explain the TV to her, there are a lot of thing I’m going to have to teach and explain to her, I just hope nobody comes over today. > Chapter 3: This isn't Equestria > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3: This isn’t Equestria I was done washing the dishes, I looked over to see where Fluttershy was sitting, she was looking around but I noticed she turned to look at the TV a lot. “I’m done with the dishes; I’m going upstairs to get something that’ll show you this cartoon you and your friends appear in.” I said drying my hands with some paper towels. “Okay” She replied, with that I headed upstairs to get my laptop and usb that had all the episodes in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fluttershy moved over a bit from where she was. She sat down on the remote control for the TV which caused it to turn on. “Oh dear, what did I do?” She said in a low voice fearing Peter would hear her. The channel happened to be CNN and they were doing a special report on terrorism while showing images that were a little disturbing causing Fluttershy to let out low yelp of fear, she quickly grabbed the remote control and pressed the many buttons, to make things worse the channel landed on the food network “Hello home viewers today we’re going to be preparing a delicious steamed rabbit.” Announced the host, Fluttershy nearly blackout at the single thought of eating a defenseless rabbit or any animal to that matter. She covered her head in horror; she didn’t even change the channel this time. She heard Peter coming down the stairs. “Okay I got the stuff right here.” I said walking in to where Fluttershy was, but as I looked closer I noticed that she was covering her face while shaking intensely. “What’s wrong?” I asked, being cut off by the noise coming from the TV. “Alright, now that we have seasoned the rabbit, we’re ready to put him in the oven.” Instructed the TV host putting the rabbit in the oven “Oh dear.” I thought quickly running to turn off the TV before anything else showed up. “Okay it’s off” I said sitting down next to her, she quickly flinched away from me. “How can you do that to poor defenseless animals?” She asked on the verge of tears. “Fluttershy I told you, we are very different from Equestria, we eat animals, and yes I know it’s wrong but we need it to survive.” I explained getting closer but she got further every time. “Get away from me!” She yelled scaring me, but I knew I had to calm her down. “Please calm down I told you this is a whole different planet with so many things wrong but not everybody is the same.” I said trying to hold her down with no use, after a few moments she started to levitate. “Let go of me you monster!” she said fly in circles trying to make me let go. “Please get down and I promise I’ll stop eating meat.” I begged. “How do I know that’s true?” She replied still flying around violently. “Because I promised I wouldn’t do anything that could hurt you.” I said trying to grasp on as hard as I could but with no luck, I slipped of Fluttershy and landed with all my body weight on my left arm. “OW, MY ARM!” I screamed in intense pain, I prayed it wasn’t broken finally Fluttershy landed next to me. I sat up grabbing my arm I turned over to see where Fluttershy, her face was that of regret. “Oh gosh I’m so sorry.” She said leaning in grabbing my arm to inspect the damage, I quickly moved my arm away due to the intense pain but Fluttershy thought otherwise. “Could… y-you forgive me?” She asked once again on the verge of tears once again. I got up and ran into the bathroom to inspection the damage, I made the error of not saying anything to Fluttershy, I went in and closed the door behind me. “God damn this hurts a lot.” I said taking my shirt off with the most caution trying to feel the less pain I could. After a feeling around a bit I concluded that it wasn’t fractured but just really hurt, I grabbed some bandages from the first aid kit that was there. I heard the front door open “Fluttershy!” I thought I quickly ran out the bathroom while putting on my shirt, Fluttershy wasn’t in the room anymore. “Oh crap.” I thought running to the front door. I saw her running down the driveway. “Wait!” I screamed running after her. “No, I’m leaving I don’t want to cause any more trouble.” She replied. “But you’re not causing any.” I said grabbing her before she took of flying, this hurt my arm a bit but I didn’t want her flying away and getting caught by the government or something like that. “Listen to me.” I said making her look at me. “Don’t worry it was an accident, yeah I understand if you got scared of me but you have to understand that I’m different to all those bad people. I forgive you, no matter what you do I forgive you but please just get inside before anybody sees you.” I begged pinning her down against the grass, she didn’t struggle as much as I would’ve expected. “Do…Do y-you mean it?” She asked opening her eyes and looking up at me. “Yes I do.” I said letting go of her, I stood up and extended my arm to help her up. “See this? This is all I need to help me, I’ll only need it for about a day or two.” I said showing her my bandage “Are you sure?” She asked getting closer to inspection the bandage. “Yup, now come let’s get inside before anybody sees you.” I said looking around to see if there was anybody looking. “Okay… But you aren’t mad right?” She Asked heading towards the front door of the house. “Of course not, there is nothing you can do that’ll make me mad, I trust you that much.” I said walking up behind her. “Do you mean it?” She said standing inside the house waiting for me to come in. “I mean it and I promise it as long as you trust me as well.” I said coming in through the door and closing it behind me “Oh yes I can do that.” She responded. “Well in that case let go watch the cartoon.” I said heading back towards the living room, if I wouldn’t have had to pick up my laptop I would’ve forgotten about my arm, it hurt like hell but I couldn’t show it off due to Fluttershy being there. --- “What’s this thing?” She asked pointing with her hoof at the laptop. “This is called a laptop, it lets you see the moving pictures like on the TV but you can also play games on it and talk with people, it can do a lot of stuff.” I said opening up one of the episodes. “Oh that’s interesting.” She said leaning in a bit more to see the screen “Well this is the show.” I said as the episode started, it was the one episode where she had become a model; I must say it was one of my favorite episodes, she of course also recognized it immediately. “Oh please don’t watch this…” She said blushing and looking away. “Why? I think you looked great.” I said smiling to make her feel better. “You’re just saying that.” She said again still not looking at me, this confirms that the episodes well at least this one, did happen. “Fine I’ll take it off.” I set the laptop aside and took off the video. “So how long ago did this happen? I mean when you were a model.” I asked her, hopefully she look at me. “About one year ago maybe a bit more.” She answered looking at me, well she moved her head in my direction. “Oh well you do-” I was cut off by a knocking coming from the front door. “ Oh no, quick um… go upstairs!” I said quickly getting up from the couch. “Do I go to your room?” She asked also scared of being found by somebody else that could hurt her. “Doesn’t matter just hide!” I was getting a little hysteric, who could it be? “Ok.” She said flying up to the second floor of the house. “Perfect.” I thought as soon as I heard a door close upstairs, finally I could open the door. “Oh. Hello Mrs.Bonhan, how can I help you? Am I in trouble?” I said giving of a fake smile, it was our neighbor Lieutenant Andrea Bonhan, she’s a police officer which made me a little sacred when I saw her wearing her uniform. “Hello Peter, don’t worry you’re not in trouble. I came by before going of to work because your mom was lending me some books.” She said smiling back at me. “Oh yeah, I forgot that.” I said reaching in to grab them from the table that was nearby. “Here you go.” I said handing her the books. “Thanks Peter, have a nic-” She was cut off by a noise coming from upstairs. “Is there somebody else here?” She asked looking inside. “Damn” I thought. “NO! I mean no it’s just me, nobody else is here but me. You should be heading off to work; last thing we want is to ruin your perfect attendance so run along now.” I said trying to avoid any unnecessary sightings. “Hmm. Well if you need anything just call me okay?” She said taking a last look around the inside of the house before leaving. “Sure will.” I said waving before closing the door. “That was close.” I thought while cleaning of my forehead. “Fluttershy it’s safe!” I called out, there was no response. “Fluttershy you okay? Where are you?” I called out again while walking up the stairs. “Oh there you are, it’s okay you can come back downstairs.” I said opening my bedroom door, luckily she was there sitting on my bed but she was looking down at something, I couldn’t tell what since I was facing her back. “Is everything alright?” I asked getting closer to her. “Where you get these?” She asked turning around holding the Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie dolls I had. “Um, well you see… Well those are toy figures of you and Pinkie but I also have the other girls.” I said, I could feel my face getting warmer due to the embarrassment. “What are they for?” She asked again looking at them rather confused. “Well I have them for collection and to feel…well… safer.” Damn this pony had ways of making anybody speak, with her adorable face and cute voice, who wouldn’t resist answering her questions? “Oh…well that’s…kind of you to like me and the rest of the girls that much. Anyways, who was at the door?” She asked putting back the toys where they were. “Oh it was just my neighbor.” I answered sitting down next to her. “So…What do you want to do now?” I asked her, I didn’t quite know how to entertain people or ponies for that matter. “Whatever you want to do is fine; oh by the way how is your arm feeling?” She asked looking down at my arm which was covered up. “It only hurts when I put pressure on it but it coming along fine, I put on my gloves to cover up the bandage so no one sees it.” I said looking down at my arm. “Anyways, you want to watch a movie?” I suggested forgetting about whether or not if she knew what it was. “Sure…” She responded “Okay come on lets go back downstairs.” --- “Okay we are going to watch a movie called Rio.” I said sitting down with a bowel of popcorn, I put it where me and Fluttershy could both grab them with ease, I also put two glasses of soda on the center table. “Um what’s it about?” she asked, I explained to her what a movie was before putting it on. “It’s about two birds, one of them can’t fly but the other one can, the first one falls in love with the second while there lost and well… It’s rather hard to explain but I sure you’ll like it.” I said putting on the movie. “I’m sure I’ll like it if it has animals in it.” She said lying down on the couch. “Let’s just hope nobody else comes while we’re watching this.” I said while eating some of the popcorn. “Yeah, I really want to watch this.” She said excited to see the opening scene of the movie. It made me fill with joy seeing her so happy but the time was running out and the first to arrive would without a doubt be my mom, I know I have to tell her but I have to convince her to let Fluttershy live here for at least another year, if Fluttershy is even here for that long. That way when I turn 18 I can rent an apartment and I can maintain Fluttershy without having to worry about my mom wanting her or not, whatever the reason, I hope I can talk some sense into her. > Chapter 4: Confrontations > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 4: Confrontations “I really liked that movie.” Said Fluttershy rather happy as the movie ended. “It’s one of my favorite movies.” I responded as I took off the movie, at the same time I heard a car pulling up at the car way I checked the clock and it had struck 3:15 pm which happens to be the time my mom gets back. “Okay Fluttershy I’m going to need you to go back upstairs and wait until I either call you or go get you, got it?” I said turning around to see a still rather joyous Fluttershy. “Why?” she asked getting up from the sofa. “Well my mom just got here and I need to find a way on introducing her to you.” I explained, she had already started walking all the way to the staircase, I was right behind her to make sure she got up there and to check where my mom was coming. After a few second I heard my bedroom door close and the front door being opened. “Well here it goes.” I thought as the door opened with my mom on the other side. “Hi honey, how was your day?” She asked walking in carrying a few bags. “It was pretty boring. I didn’t do anything but watch a movie.” I said pulling of a fake smile. “Well you could’ve gone over to Sylvia’s house, she always so happy to see you.” She said as she put the bags down on the kitchen counter. “Yeah but I didn’t want to bother her.” I said sitting down on the other side of the counter. “Honestly I don’t know why you guys didn’t work out as a couple.” She chuckled a bit, she always brought that up. “Could you please stop saying that? It’s really embarrassing to talk about it.” It annoyed me quite a bit. “Well sorry. Has your brother gotten home yet?” she asked “No.” “Huh, he is probably with Diane again.” She answered starting to store all the stuff from the bags “Yeah most likely… Hey can I ask you something? Well actually 2 things.” I said rubbing the back of my head. “Sure you can tell me anything.” “Well I was wondering…When I turn eighteen… Well I was wondering if I could move out, you know live on my own in my own house.” I started to become a little nervous, maybe she would think wrong and would believe that I don’t like to live here. “Well I mean if you want to and if you have the money I suppose you could, you would be old enough to take those decisions.” She answered, some doubt in her voice. “Don’t get me wrong I love to live here but I always sort of dreamed on living on my own when I turned old enough, well the second question is well a little bit unrealistic.” I said trying to lay out smoothly. “Okay what is it?” “Well you know that one cartoon I watch, My little Pony right?” I asked. “Yeah, what about it?” “Well if one of the main characters were to end up in this world and well more specifically in our house…Would she be able to stay? I mean for as long as her friends come to rescue her.” I knew she wouldn’t take it serious but any respond would be enough. “Peter is this an excuse to keep some dog you found on the internet?” She questioned looking at me with a rather angered face. “What? No I’m being serious what would you do? Would she be able to stay if she had no other place to go?” “Hmm. Well in that case I guess she could probably stay, as long as she wouldn’t cause to much of a mess.” She said thinking for a second. “Trust me she wouldn’t make the slightest mess what so ever.” That was a close one I thought to myself. “Wait what do you mean?” She responded. “Oh umm nothing.” Oh dang slip of the tongue right there. “Peter are you hiding something?” She asked, she was onto something. “No. I’m going to go upstairs now, wait so it was a yes she could stay right?” I had to make sure I heard correctly. “Well yeah I guess so.” “Perfect.” I rushed up as fast as I could to my bedroom without even caring if my mom had something else to say. --- I rushed into my room closing the door quickly; I was rather excited over my mom’s response even if it would change when she actually saw Fluttershy. “What happened?” Fluttershy asked, she put down the toy figure I have of her. “Well it was a positive answer but just to be safe we’ll wait until the rest of my family to be here.” I sat down next to her; honestly I hadn’t thought about my dad or my brother so that they all knew about her. “Why?” She asked again. “Well I prefer for everybody to meet you at the same time.” I responded. “Ok then, but are we going to stay in here until they get home?” “That’s right, but I’m sure there is something we can do to pass the time.” I said looking around my room trying to find something to do. “I know what we can do!” I quickly saw something that could really interest her. “What is that?” She asked, as I turned on my Xbox. “You’ll see, this is going to be fun I promise.” I put in Kinect adventures, I’m sure this will be entertaining for the both of us. “Is this another movie?” She asked as the game started. “Something like that, only here you can interact with it.” I replied setting everything up for the both of use to play. “Okay this is what you have to do, you move your front leg like this and the character on the screen will do the same.” I explained the basic to her, and to my surprise she was learning rather quickly. “Are you sure I’m doing it fine?” She asked moving around doing what the game indicated. “Yeah, you’re doing great for your first time playing this.” I’ve got to admit I was surprised to see her doing pretty well. > Chapter 5: Now the Rest... > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 5: Now the Rest… “Honey! Your dad and brother are home! Come down for dinner!” My mom called out from the bottom of the staircase. “Well Fluttershy, I guess it’s time for you to meet my family.” I told her as I turned off the Xbox, in my mind I couldn’t help but to think that this could either go down really well or really bad. “Okay, can we play later on?” She asked me, I guess she really enjoyed that game. --- “Hey son! How was your day?” My dad asked me as I entered the kitchen, I told to Fluttershy to wait until I gave her the queue to walk in. “It’s been…alright I guess…” I kind of took some time to answer. “Why would that be?” He asked again. “Well…mom do you remember what I asked you earlier?” I said turning to face my mom. “You mean about that pony thing?” She asked as she set some plates on the table. “Yeah that.” “What about it?” She asked “Well… I don’t know how to say this so I’ll do this quick. Fluttershy you can come in now.” This was the moment of truth where I would get a real answer on whether she can stay or well really I don’t have a plan B. “Um…Hi everypony…” Fluttershy said walking in slowly, causing immediate reactions. “WHAT THE HECK! PETER WHAT IS THIS?” My mom immediately yelled almost dropping the plate she was holding. “What do you mean? You said that if she ever ended up here she could stay.” Just what I expected, I looked over at Fluttershy, she seemed frighten but I gave her a reassuring smile before turning back at my parents. “Yeah but I didn’t think it was real.” She answered still not fully realizing what she was seeing. “Where have she been sleeping and how long has she been in this house?” Added my dad. “Well she’s been here since last night and she is sleeping in my bed.” I said staying as firm as possible. “I want her out.” My mom said, a cold expression on her face, I turned over to look at Fluttershy, she was scared, and felt she was the only one to blame. “You can’t be serious?” I was surprised to hear my dad say that. “What do you mean? Holy crap, is that Fluttershy?” I heard my brother say as he approached, he didn’t sound that surprised. “Yes, and my mom wants her out.” I said turning back to face my mom. “Just get her out of this house now.” She said a bit more angered. “And where do you want me to leave her? In an animal shelter? I’m sorry but she is staying here no matter what you say.” I replied, I had this type of behavior, much less towards my parents but this is what had to be done. “Then where do you think you’re going to have her sleep?” She replied, this was a duel I wasn’t ready to lose. “Where she has stayed, in my room and in this house.” I pointed in the air to symbolize my room upstairs. My mom stayed quite for a few moments. “Please let her stay, she has nowhere else to go, just let her stay here at least until they come for her or if I turn 18, then I can move out and bring her with me, she’s not a pet mom, you’ve seen the show, you know very well that she knows how to behave. She has a mind.” I almost started to cry, I didn’t want her to make Fluttershy leave. “Hey where she go?” My brother said, none of us where looking at Fluttershy so we didn’t noticed her leaving. “Oh no.” I said noticing the front door was wide open. “I’ve got to go find her,” I rushed outside to grab my bike, hopefully she wasn’t to far already. “Peter wait!” I heard my mom callout “What?” I was scared and angry right now, about Fluttershy staying or not. “She can stay.” My mom said, a small smile on her face. “Oh and take this.” She threw her car keys at me, which I managed to grab with one hand. “You’ll need a way to get her back without a lot of unnecessary people seeing her.” I rushed up to her and hugged her, but now I had to get going. --- I stopped near the park, I’ve been looking all over for her, not only on ground but in the sky. I got out of the car and went to sit down by a bench that was in front of a large tree, I felt sad and started to feel tears rolling down my cheeks. I couldn’t believe she was lost, but there was one thought in my head that I couldn’t get out. “What if her friends come looking for her? What if they find me and me where she is? I wouldn’t handle the stress of having to tell them that she could be lost or even…dead.” As that last thought sunk in I felt something wet fall on my head. I looked at the sky in front of my view range and there were only a few clouds, and none that could indicate any rain. So I did what anyone would do and looked up. To my relief I saw a pink mane hanging from a branch, It was Fluttershy, apparently she hadn’t noticed me. “Fluttershy!” I called out in happiness, whipping the remaining tears from my face, she got frightened, I guess she didn’t expect anyone to find her. “Fluttershy come down please!” I said again this time making her look down at me, she had a lot of tears flowing from her eyes. “Just leave me here! I don’t want to bother you anymore.” She got quite as she said that last part. “Please just come down and go home with me.” I looked around to see if there was anybody else in the park, luckily there wasn’t “Why? It’s pretty clear that I’m not wanted there.” She said in between sniffs and tears. “If you weren’t welcomed back, would I’ve have been looking for you?” I asked still waiting foe her to come down but at the same time keeping a lookout for anybody that might become present. “Well I guess not…” She said looking away in thought. “Plus if you don’t come back, I don’t think I nor your friends could ever fix that hole in our hearts.” I remembered that from season two. She still looked like she was doubting it. “Please Fluttershy, come down from there and go back with me, remember my promise” I extended my hand to let her know it was true what I just said. “I guess you did promise it… Fine, I’ll go back with you” She said, this time finally giving in to my plea, she came down from the tree and I quickly gave her a hug, I was happy she was okay. “Come let’s go home and play some more.” I said checking one last time to see if anybody was there. --- The ride back home was going to take about ten minutes so that gave Fluttershy and I some time to talk. “So, how is everything going to work out? You know with me and your mom.” Fluttershy asked as I drove through a less crowded street. “Well I guess normally, you’ll just be like another member of the family.” I responded. “But, won’t I be a bother towards her?” She asked again “Look, I’m pretty positive that’ll she’ll see you just as another pet sadly, but with time she’ll learn that you’re nowhere close to being a pet.” I said letting out a small sigh. “Oh…” She said lowering her head and tilting her ears back. “Come on don’t be like that, I’m sure everything will be a lot better I promise.” I reassured her as we finally drove up to the garage of my house, I made sure to wait until the door closed so Fluttershy could get out. --- “There they are!” My dad said as Fluttershy and I walked inside the house. “Thank god you’re alright.” My brother said towards Fluttershy “Thanks…” She responded timidly. “Where’s my mom?” I asked, she was nowhere to be found, she was probably somewhere ranting about the current situation. “She’s upstairs in your room.” My dad responded. ‘Oh crap now what is she doing?’ I thought “Well I guess we better go check out what’s she’s up too.” I said sort of annoyed at the single thought of her doing something as crazy as moving the bed so Fluttershy wouldn’t be able to sleep there. --- “Mom, we’re back, what are you doing?” I asked as I opened the door to my room, my mom was there as expected except she wasn’t doing what I was expecting. “Oh hello, I see that you did find her!” She said smiling at both of us. “What are you doing?” I asked her. “Just changing the sheets of the bed she’s going to be sleeping in, I can’t believe you didn’t change them knowing they were all dirty.” She responded, this was totally opposite from what I was expecting. “Oh…Well thanks.” I said a little shocked to see her not really asking any questions, but knowing her she probably had something in between hands. “Well I’m going to be downstairs if you need me.” After finishing changing the bed sheets she left, leaving me and Fluttershy in the room. “Well that went better than expecting…Want to watch a movie?” I asked her turning around to look at her, I didn’t really need a response due to the question causing her to smile, well that’s another thing she likes, movies. === I was about to press the play button when I heard a knocking at my door “Come in!” I said and in a few seconds I saw my brother’s head pop in from the slightly opened door. “Hey, um…what are you guys doing?” He asked, I knew what he wanted. “Watching a movie!” Fluttershy quickly explained “Want to watch it with us?” She asked my brother before I even had a chance to talk. “Sure!” His response was quicker than saying the word kumquat. He spend the rest of the movie asking Fluttershy a lot of questions, it didn’t bother me that he asked her the questions but the fact that he didn’t really let her watch it, but I already had a little surprise for Fluttershy. “Hey Pamela, think you could do me a little favor?” I texted one of my friends, who was a pegasister and a very good friend of mine. “Sure what is it?” > Chapter 6: Lava Cakes > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 6: LAVA CAKES “Well I’ve got to hand to you, this looks pretty cool but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to eat everything.” I said as I sat down in the kitchen table. This time Fluttershy had woken up before me and I guess she had some time so she made breakfast for the both of us. “It’s the least I could do after what you’ve done for me.” She said finishing up what seemed like a batch of French toast with daisies. “Are those…flowers on the bread?” I asked, it seemed a bit odd but I did say no meat, well at least afterwards she said it was fine if I wanted to eat it. “Yeah it’s a recipe I read from a book Twilight gave me.” She said sitting down, she made quite a few plates of food but I was decided to try everything out, at least for her. “Wow…this tastes… quite good actually.” I said as I took a bite of the French toast and some eggs with some kind of pepper. “Oh, um thanks.” She blushing and smiling at the same time. “So are you always by yourself everyday? Because your family rarely seems to be here.” She asked cleaning her mouth with a napkin. “Yeah, everybody except me goes out most of the day, I mean I do have an occasional get-together with my friends but not as much as before.” I answered eating some more French toast, got to admit that tasted good. “Don’t you get lonely or sad?” “No.” I responded in a heartbeat. “Why?” She asked again. “Cause you’re here and I’m not alone.” I said smiling at her causing her to instantly smile and blush again. “Well anyway I’ll tell you now, tomorrow I have school so I’ll be home at around maybe 3:30pm so in case you wake up and I’m not here.” I explained. “Oh that’s fine.” She was almost done with her breakfast while I on the other hand already finished. --- ‘Damn this laundry is heavy.’ I thought as I walked up the stairs from the basement towards my room, I had to do my own laundry most of the time and also some of my family’s but I didn’t mind. At least I had something to do, “Peter!” I heard Fluttershy call me from upstairs. “Coming!” It was almost time for launch and by the looks of it only Fluttershy and I were going to be eating here. “What is it?” I asked setting the basket with clothes beside me. “This thing has been vibrating for a while now.” She pointed at my cellphone that was receiving a text message “What happened? Aren’t you going to stop by?” It was Pamela, I had totally forgotten about going. “Oh sh- Are you going to be okay if I leave for like maybe 20 minutes?” I asked turning around to look at Fluttershy. “Well yeah I guess.” She said thinking for a second. “Okay I’m just going over there to pick a few things up, anyways want me to put on the videogame on so you can play?” I asked, might as well have her entertained for the time being. “Oh yes please that would be great!” An instant smile appeared on her face. “You know these are way different from the ones in Equestria.” She added “Oh yeah we also have that type of videogames here in this world, anyway be right back, if anybody calls or knocks on the door don’t answer.” I instructed her before leaving. “Okay, what if your parents or brother come?” She asked. “Don’t mind them, unless you know they start talking to you.” I said “Okay then, take care.” She replied before starting to play, I should teach her how to use the controller so she can play some other games. “You too.” I said before walking downstairs and grabbing the car keys, good thing my mom didn’t take it today. --- “Geez what took you so long?” Pamela said as I walked in the store, it was her uncles shop so naturally as a family member she could work there. “Sorry I have some ‘company’ and I was a tad bit busy, anyways how have you been?” I asked her giving her a friendly kiss In the cheek, I have a crush on her but naturally I wouldn’t dare tell her. “Oh yeah? Who might that be that you have visiting?” She said rather teasing me. “Just a friend.” I said looking around to what they had. “Is this friend a girl?” She asked again with the same teasing tone. “Yes…” I know what’s coming. “So she’s your ‘girlfriend’?” She said it as a single word on purpose I just knew it. “Yes, she’s a girl and she’s my friend, anyway what do you have to eat today?” I asked know that Fluttershy was probably going to be hungry as well. “Let’s see we have some salads like always, hamburgers with fries and sushi.” She said, man those were all good options. “I guess I’ll be taking two sushi rolls please.” I said while grabbing some chips and other goodies. “Okay then, anyway how has your family been?” She said as she started to mark all of the stuff I was buying. “They’re fine, same old routine of going to work and coming back.” I said while placing the rest of the stuff on the counter. “That’s good, tell I said hi, anyway the total will be $24.50.” She replied finishing marking all of my products. “Did you bring what I asked you?” I asked while giving her the money. “Oh yeah! Almost forgot, here they are, freshly made and ready to serve.” She handed me the lava cakes I asked her to make, I really loved them but she never gave me the recipe. “All right, they look delicious, can’t wait to eat them, have I ever told you how much I love these things?” I complimented as I took the bags and searched for the car keys. “Yeah like every time I make them you tell me.” She said chuckling; it’s true I did say that the whole time. “Well I guess I’ll see you tomorrow at school then.” I said before leaving. “I guess, see you tomorrow then, and take care.” She waved goodbye from behind the counter. “You too.” --- The drive back home was rather peaceful, not too much traffic which was a good thing, I didn’t want to leave Fluttershy alone too long, not that I didn’t trust her but I didn’t want nothing to happen to her. “Fluttershy I’m back!” I said while walking into the house, I could hear her upstairs playing still, I went into the kitchen to leave the bags, there was no response but I guess she just didn’t hear me. “Are you up here?” I said walking into my room, and as I suspected there she was only thing is she wasn’t playing. “Oh you’re back, I hope you don’t mind but I took the time to fold all this clothes for you.” She answered finishing folding the last piece of cloth left in the basket. “Oh, um thanks you didn’t have to.” I said shrugging a bit. “I just thought I could help out, you sure do have a lot of chores to do don’t you? She asked getting up from the bed and walking closer to me. “Yup well that’s what happens when you stay alone at home like me, anyway I brought us some food, I mean if you’re hungry that is.” I told her while pointing towards downstairs. “Well I am kind of hungry so yeah I guess I do want to eat.” She said smiling before walking out of the room, me following her. --- “Well I bought sushi, I don’t know if you have this in Equestria but it taste good, it fish with rice and other stuff.” I told her setting down the sushi on the table. “We do actually, I like it a lot.” She said a smile forming on her face. We sat down and started eating, we were about half way done when I thought of a question. “Hey, not to be mean or anything but do you think that they’re looking for you?” I asked her after finishing eating a piece of sushi. “Well I mean I’m sure they are, after all that’s what I would do if it happened to any of them, I would go looking for them no matter what…” She stayed silent for a brief second before continuing eating. “Don’t worry. I’m sure they won’t take long.” I said grabbing her hoof. She seemed to get a bit happier, after this we were done with the sushi and ready for dessert. “I hope you have some room in your stomach still cause I brought some dessert too.” I said bringing in two plates with a lava cake on each. “What are those?” She said looking at her plate as I sat down in front of her. “They’re called lava cakes, y friend makes them and they taste wonderful.” I said before taking a bite of my cake, I was just really waiting for this moment. “Hmm… Thmy dom tastme good dom’t themy?” I said forgetting my mouth was full with the chocolate pastry. “They are.” She responded after swallowing a piece of it. “I wanted to ask you, I mean if it’s okay with you but was that thing that was vibrating this morning?” She asked me about my cell phone, I almost forgot they didn’t have them in Equestria. “Oh sure no problem, they called phones, we use them to communicate with other people who aren’t here or that we can’t go visit and just want to chat or remind them something.” I gave her a brief explanation of how they were somewhat used for. “Oh that sounds like a good way to talk to your friends when you can’t visit them.” She said after analyzing the use of this artifact. “Yup!” I said imitating Big Macintosh, I wonder how long she’ll be living here with me? Hopefully a good while, just enough for her to enjoy some of the good things this world has to offer. > Chapter 7: Time passed. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 7: Time passed. School was going by rather slower than usual and it was mainly due to my concern for Fluttershy and everybody in my neighborhood. Any way I kept getting carried away from my classes but other than that everything went swell, nobody in my class knew about her and that was honestly better. But when it came to Pamela, things were still pretty hard to let go… In the few months that she’s been living her with me I’ve also managed to teach her to use the phone in case of emergencies, along a few other things that might be important for her to know. Both her and my birthdays passed, I got her some books about animals but if it was just us two living together I would’ve bought her a bunny or any other pet. --- “Peter, your sister called today.” My mom said as she read a book on the couch, Fluttershy was on the other sofa also reading a book I got for her about animals, I still can’t believe that my mom actually accepted Fluttershy, even though she did try to get rid of her once but after that everything went back to ‘normal’ per say. “Really? What did she say?” I asked, I was doing some stuff on my computer for school. “She said she needs your help.” She answered still focusing on her book. “Help with what?” intrigue I asked again, I liked helping out my sister a lot. “She said if you could go see her at their store.” She finished saying, I could only imagine what she wanted me for. “Well then I guess I should go see her, can I borrow the van?” I asked saving my work and started to put on my coat. “Just remember to fill the tank, last time I barely made it to the gas station.” My mom said a little angry. “Sorry but don’t worry I won’t forget.” I chuckled lightly before grabbing the van keys. “Be right back then.” “Alright take care.” Fluttershy said taking her eyes of her book and turning to face me. “You too.” After that I placed my headphones on my ears and left the house towards my destination. --- I pulled up to the store’s parking, I could see my sister attending some customers she seemed kind of busy at the moment but hopefully by the time I went in there would be less people so we could talk about whatever it is she needs from me. “Het sis.” I said walking into the store cause for a doorbell to be heard. “Oh Peter thank goodness you came, give me minute and we’ll get to business okay?” She said before finishing attending a customer. “No problem.” I said taking a seat in one of those tables that most supermarkets have to sit and eat. It took her about another five minutes before all the customers where gone, she left the counter and proceeded to sit with me. “Okay so what did you need to talk about?” I asked her as she sat down. “I need you to work here for me please.” She said right away. “Huh? Really?” I said still analyzing what she just said. “You’ll only be coming Mondays through Thursdays; please I’ll pay you 20 bucks daily.” She pleaded from the other side. “Well …sure! I mean what do I have to do? Just come and help out?” I asked, my insides filling with joy towards the fact that I got what I needed, a job and one that was going to be paying some good money, at least to start saving, I was still one year away from being able to live on my own. “Yes, just come, work at the cash register, clean, stock items. You know the basic stuff, please and if you do great I’ll even give you a raise.” She finished explaining, I was definitely accepting this job. “Okay then when do I start?” I said eagerly. “Well if you can, tomorrow would be nice.” She asked smiling at me. “Sure no problem.” I said smiling from ear to ear. “Oh thank you Peter, I knew I could count on you.” She said reaching in to hug me from the other side of the table. “You’re welcome, well I better get going, i have some homework that needs to be finished, you know this whole technician in electronics career take a lot of thinking and I need full concentration.” I said checking my watch to see the time. “Okay, I’ll see you tomorrow then?” She said as we both got up from the table. “Yup! Without a doubt.” --- I was so happy on the way home, I made some calculations in my head to see how much money I could make in a year and it was enough, well enough to at least rent a two bedroom apartment and to pay the bills. “How it go? What did she need?” My mom asked as I entered the house, I still had a big grin on my face. “All I’m going to say is that I am employed.” I said raising my hand in the air, sort of like the Freddy Mercury meme. “Really? That’s great honey, your first job and your sister as your boss, I’m sure she’ll do great introducing you to the working life so you’ll see how it feels to work for the stuff you want.” She said, getting excited as well over the news. “Where’s Fluttershy? I want to tell her too.” I asked my mom, I really wanted her to know as well. “Oh she’s upstairs in your room, maybe watching TV or something.” She said pointing towards the stairs. “Thanks.” I said before dashing of towards my room to tell her the great news. --- I walked into my room to see Fluttershy sitting in what was now her bed, she was playing the Wii which I got for my birthday but she really enjoyed playing it, plus it controller was easier for her to use and she spent a lot of time playing it so I really didn’t mind. “Oh you’re back, how did it go?” She asked pausing her game and turning her face to look at me. “I got a job.” I said walking up to her, I gave her a hug because I knew that in a year it would hopefully just be the two of us. “Oh that’s great! What do you have to do?” She said accepting my hug without any problem. “I just got to clean or stock items, you know simple store stuff.” I said shrugging a bit. “Well I’m happy to hear that, just don’t overdo it to earn more cash.” She said smiling. “Don’t worry, I won’t.” --- Spring went by rather fast; a lot of rainstorms and that meant a lot of lightings and thunders during the night mostly, this cause Fluttershy to wake up a lot in the night scared and made me sleep with her on her bed. As for the job, I opened a bank account and at the end of each week I would go and deposit that week’s earnings. My brother started to help me to get Fluttershy into the theater by opening the exit door so she could go into the screening room undetected, this mainly being due to the fact that I couldn’t find many places to take her to, I mean after all it’s pretty boring to just stay in the same place day after day, I also managed to figure out that Pamela lives fairly close to the store where I work at so every other day she stops by to talk, of course only when she isn’t working. By the looks of it and the current position I’m at, everything seem to be going as planned and in a few months I would be able to place my own rules and hopefully Fluttershy would be there to continue making my life more enjoyable. > Chapter 8: Winner! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 8: Winner! Graduation was just around the corner and I was busy finishing up all my pending work, to make it worst the store was constantly busy, I started to look for a different job at least something that would pay more then my current one, I’ve even started to look for a place to rent something small but that would work fine for the both of us, I have around five thousand dollars saved up without counting interests. --- “How do you feel?” “Nervous.” I replied, it was finally the big day, the day I graduated high school as a electronics technician. “I didn't think I mange to finish all my work in time but I did.” I said chuckling a bit, it was great that my family could be here and even better that Fluttershy too could come, it was at night and that way she could conviniantly hide without having to worry about being discovered. “Well you did, now you better go find your place, we'll go sit were we can easily see you.” My mom said before hugging me. “Oh you kids grow up so fast, it feels as if just yesterday I was picking you up from kindergarten, now you're graduating from high school and you're moving out” She said shedding a tear of joy. “Don't worry mom I'll always be your little boy, I’m glad that you've always supported me through out this years and even more this last year, you know with the whole Fluttershy thing and stuff.” I thanked her, she and dad had always been there for me and now I’m heading off to collage. The ceremony went by well, I almost fainted when I went to get my paper but other then that the night went by excellent, my family threw me a little party, and that's when my sister met Fluttershy, she was a bit freaked out actually a bit more than my parents or my brother were when they saw her but she promised to keep her a secret as well. --- “Oh thank goodness it's Saturday.” I said as I finished taking a bath, me and Fluttershy were going to go watch a movie later on. “Hey Fluttershy!” I called out from the bathroom. “Yes Peter?” She answered, peeking her head from our room's door, I could tell from her messy mane that she was probably taking a nap. “Can you pass me some pants from the closet please, I forgot to grab them when I got up.” I asked her, I tend to change in the bathroom rather then my bedroom now, for obvious reasons. “Here you go.” Fluttershy walked out of the room with the pants laying on her back. “Thanks, I’ll be out in a minute.” I said, grabbing the pants. “No problem, I’m going to take a quick nap, I’m still rather tired from last night.” She said yawning and going back to the room. After I was done dressing I decided to go make myself a sandwich, I didn't have breakfast and I was somewhat hungry. “Let's see, where did she put the nutella?” I decided to go for a nutella and jelly sandwich. I was about to grab the jelly when somebody knocked on the front door. “Now who could that be?” I thought as I opened the door. “Good after noon! Are you Peter Pastrana?” There was a lady dressed fancy holding a microphone and a camera guy apparently recording. “Um... Yes that would be me.” I said dumfounded about what was going on. “Well we're from GreenStripe bank and we are here to congratulate you for winning a astonishing amount of one million dollars.” She said and as if on queue another lady walked up with a big check that had written my name and the amount. “Huh? Wha- How th-” I couldn't speak out any coherent sentences, was this a dream, a joke or real. “How do you feel? Happy? Surprised.” Said the lady holding the microphone laughing a bit. “Happy...” I managed to finally speak out, holy crap this was real! “Well here, grab the check it's yours after all.” She said again signaling me to grab the check which I did right away. After that they gave me a quick interview, most likely yo appear later on the news, I guess that was really lucky, now instead of renting I can actually buy a house and live decently for a few years and pay for my collage, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to work. --- After a few months of looking I've narrowed down house options to 3 houses, each with different benefits, one had three rooms, two bathrooms, and a pool, along with the kitchen, living room and basement, it was at a decent price but I wanted a bigger backyard. The others were all pretty much the same, they had there benefits but also there flaws, in the mean time I had rented a house near my new job, the other thing I was missing was a car, I managed to get a job as a waiter in a restaurant near the house so I could easily walk to it. It paid better than my old one, here I got 7 dollars an hour plus all the tips, so it was more than enough for now especially having those one million in the bank. I guess I could say I was truly living my life, collage started until august, so I had time to save up a bit for supplies and other school related stuff. As for Fluttershy, well she had her own room now so I could finally have a big bed just for myself, I decided to gift her a dog as a late birthday gift, she fell in love with that fella. My shift was just over but I decided to stay a bit longer to talk to the other waiters, they were rather funny and like me also shared love for a certain show. “Did you guys catch yesterday's episode? Dude Pinkie was real funny in that one.” Said Alex sitting in one of the chairs of a table I was cleaning, Lance was sitting on the other side. “I've got to say, I liked the metal gear references, those were awesome and I liked how Twilight looked with the eye patch.” Lance added, drinking some soda out of his glass. “Yeah I liked that too, but I wasn't able to find Derpy in that episode.” I said finishing cleaning the table, they had smeared a lot of dessert all over the table, most likely it being the kids the couple had with them. “Well i'm done for tonight, see you tomorrow guys.” I said wiping some sweat off my face, it had been a rather busy night with a lot of customers and a lot of tips. “Okay then, see ya Peter.”' “Yeah later bro!” They both gave me a goodbye before exiting the place, at the moment my phone started to vibrate, I took it out of my pocket to see who it could be. To my surprise it was from my house. “Hello?” I said answering quickly. “Hi Peter, it's me Fluttershy, are you almost here?” She asked, that was strange she sounded a bit agitated. “I barely finished my shift, why what happened?” I asked starting to worry a bit. “We have some visitors.” She said in a rather happy tone. "Visitors?" > Chapter 9: Visitors > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 9: Visit My heart was beating at a mile per second, I was thinking of all the possible people that could be at my house right now, my family is out of the question since they came yesterday, neither could it be any of my friends for starters, they don't know where I live yet and second I HIGHLY doubt Fluttershy would open the door in that case and much less, my mind doesn't manage to come to a single thought of who it might be, neither do I notice if there are any cars passing when I cross the streets. My mind was focused on one single thought and that was to get back to my house and make sure Fluttershy was there safe and sound. --- I rushed up to the door of my house, I reached in for my keys to open as quickly as possible. “Fluttershy!” I yell out into the house as I step in, there was no response, I entered the living room and there was nobody else. “Fluttershy!” I call out again, tears forming in my eyes, where is she? What happened? I was so stressed and scared, so many emotions going through me right now that I collapsed in the floor crying. After a few short minutes I get up from the floor and walk over to my room, maybe she's in there with whoever came, but to no luck there wasn't anybody there, I walk over to her room, as I get closer I hear some sounds coming from inside, this of course makes me happy, I open her door with as much speed as possible, but the noises turned out to be just the TV, I stand there a few seconds which really felt like hours, but finally I let out a sigh and turn around to go back to the living room, but just as I turn around I feel an intense pain in my upper back and head, before passing out I manage to distinguish a pony-like silhouette. --- “Pete....Peter....” “Oh so his name is Peter?' “Yeah, who you think it was...” “I don't know some other... thing that just came in here...” “Well I hope he is fine...” I heard some voices as I began coming back to my senses after being knocked out by who knows what. My head was aching in pain and I felt myself lying on the living room couch, I began to stand up from my resting place. “Dear geez, what happened?” I said opening my eyes, I turned over to see who was standing next to me, to my relief it was Fluttershy with a worried look on her face. “Fluttershy!” I said remembering that I was more worried about her than what she appeared to be about me, I lunched myself at her and gave her a tight hug. “Oh god, I thought somebody had taken you, I was so worried.” I said nearly crying my eyes out, I had realized that I was nothing without her, I was in love with her, she had been my friend for the last 2 years and I wouldn't think of suddenly losing my best friend. “Oh... no I was worried for you, you received a pretty hard hit to the head.” She answered blushing slightly. We hugged a bit longer until I heard someone go 'D'aww' behind us. “The fu-!?” I said turning around rapidly, who else was in here right now, but as I finally focused my eyesight on the other mass behind me my jaw dropped in amazement. “P-Pin...Pinkie?” I managed to say, turns out that that not only was Fluttershy the only pony here but now so was Pinkie Pie. “Hi!” She said with a big smile like always not counting that one episode where she goes crazy. “H-Hi... H-How did you get here?” I asked, I didn't know whether I was happy, surprised or shocked. “Oh that's a good question I would like to answer.” I heard another familiar voice from my left side, to which I turned around and saw Twilight and Rainbow Dash standing in the hallway that lead towards the rooms. “Wow... I really did hit my head hard.” I said out unintentionally as I touched the back of my head, with a more surprised look on my face. “Yeah, sorry 'bout that.” That voice was easy to distinguish, it was Applejack who as I also guessed might have been standing next to Rarity. “Yeah sorry I didn't tell you who it was because it was going to be a surprise...” She said in a apologetic tone. The smile that was once on my face quickly faded, I knew damn straight why they were here, why lie to myself. “Well I got to say, it sure is a pleasant surprise, it's not everyday that you come home to get hit by a pony and wake up talking to six.” I said joking around trying to hide my now growing sadness. “Well if you wish I would gladly answer your question as to why we are here.” Twilight said, I found it odd that they weren't scared of me, maybe Applejack was but, why not the rest of them? As much as I would've loved to accept her offer, I was pretty tired, not only was the week rough and my shift ending at 10 o'clock, that didn't help much now but I could very well use it to my advantage, maybe I could convince them that I’m really tired and make them wait until tomorrow morning to talk. “That would be swell, but I'm really tired, I had a long week and if by any chance and if you be willing to wait until tomorrow morning to tell me all this, cause really, I don't think I can go another minute staying awake.” I said stretching and faking a yawn. “Sure.” I had finished stretching when I heard a quick reply from Twilight. “Really?! I mean really, thanks.” I couldn't believe that worked, I must be lucky. “Well there is 3 beds so you're going to have to share.” I said, thankfully I brought both my beds from my room in my parents house. “But where will you sleep?” Pinkie asked me with a concerned look on her face. “Don't worry the couch is also a bed.” Thankfully I bought one this fold out bed couches, I always wanted one cause honestly there cool. “Well if you don't mind showing us towards the beds please, a lady does need her beauty sleep.” Rarity added yawing as well. “Sure, no problem.” It took me just a few minutes to get the beds ready for all the ponies but at the same time I kept thinking about how I was going to handle saying goodbye to Fluttershy in the morning, it didn't help much that I was always really emotional so I found it hard to hide my tears. After a few minutes I found myself sitting at the edge of the fold out bed, thinking, I already heard a few of the snoring. “Can't sleep?” I heard a voice coming from the hallway. “Fluttershy, what are you doing up so late?” I said as I was surprised by her presence, I quickly cleaned my face, I was after all crying and didn't want her to notice. “Yeah, I can't believe my friends found me... just like you said.” She said in a sad tone, I guess she already knew was going to happen as well. “Well of course, they're your friends, how could they possibly forget you?” I said joking, honestly I would do the same, she came and sat next to me. We stayed silent for a few minutes, not really wanting to talk about what was already obvious. “I'm going to miss you.” She said in a low voice, this caused me to finally break into to tears, I just did what I always did when I wanted to hold on to something or someone, I leaned in hugged her, at this point she started crying as well. I don't know how long we lasted hugging or at what point we fell asleep. --- I was woken up by the smell of what could only be pancakes, they smelled great. I opened my eyes slowly remembering what had happened last night, I also felt a little bit of pain coming from my head, it might be a good idea to put on some ice. I walked into the kitchen to grab a bag with ice, I was instantly met with 6 ponies sitting in the table, they had already made breakfast, which I guess was all really done by Pinkie and maybe Fluttershy. “Good morning Peter!” I heard Pinkie greet me with her happy tone that was characteristic from her personality. “Morning Partner, sorry again about last night.” Applejack apologized again “Morning everypony.” I said before heading over to sit down instead, the ice could wait. “So Peter I guess this is a good time to explain.” Twilight said, I noticed she was reading one of my history books, that's good, at least she can learn about the human race. “Yes, I love to know how all of you ended up here.” I said, I looked over to Fluttershy who was sitting next to Rainbow Dash, she had what I could guess was the same sad expression I had on my face right now. “Well it's quite simple actually, it was just a teleportation spell.” She said content with her answer, which only left me dumbfounded same goes for Fluttershy. “That's it? But how did Fluttershy get here?” I asked, I was really confused. “Oh yeah, well... to be honest... We have been monitoring you, and this world as well so we need to send a pony to see how you reacted towards the whole situation, not only you but also Fluttershy.” The answer shocked both of us, so it turns out we were nothing but a mere test, experiment, this only made me more sad, I wasn't blessed with meeting a pony, I was used to test reactions on certain situations. “So... does this mean that you're going back to Ponyville?” instead of getting mad or sad I decided to simply confront the situation. “Nope.” Rainbow Dash answered swallowing her food in her mouth. “What?” Both Fluttershy and I said in complete synchronization, both completely happy and confused for the sudden news. “Really? Why?” I said after a few moments, starting to become even more happy after every passing seconding “Well to be honest we didn't think you two would bond so much, and it felt wrong separating you too, especially after the many times you defended her, but what really told us that you too had a special bond was when you went looking for her, instead of leaving her to fend for herself, that's what really told us that we couldn't separate the both of you.” Twilight explained, this only caused me to smile uncontrollably same goes for Fluttershy. “So this means we're staying?” Fluttershy asked a bit more enthusiastic than how she was a few minutes ago. “That's right, we'll all be living under the same roof can you believe that? This is going to be so great.” Pinkie Pie said excitedly, I guess this was their plan all along. Well this was my current position, as happy as Pinkie if not even more with the fact that Fluttershy is going to stay but that fact that other 5 ponies as well are going to be my roommates. I couldn't believe my luck right now. Wait...6 ponies... Well I guess it's time to look for a bigger house! > Chapter 10: New House > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 10: New House Again another month or so passed and once again I moved, I mange to buy a van that could fit all the girls and the house was pretty good, it was a total of 1 acre of land around the house, the house itself had six rooms and 4 bathrooms, it was three floors big and Fluttershy wanted me to share room with her, I didn't care much in fact I really enjoyed it, like good old times. My parents didn't like the idea of me living with 6 girls but I told them that it was all okay, they had nothing to worry about. This time I made sure to tell my friends where I was now living, but only one of them got to know about the ponies, she was the only other brony out of my group of friends. --- “Peter...Wake up...” Fluttershy moved me around to get me to wake up. “Five more minutes...” I mumbled out, I wasn't ready to get up, I know I had too but I didn't really feel like it. “Come everypony else already woke up, plus you promised you'd help Twilight with her studies on humans.” She sounded like my mom. “Fine... I'm awake.” I said raising up from my bed, first thing I saw was Fluttershy and that just made my day everyday, being able to see her face first every morning was good enough to keep me happy for the rest of the day. “How's the weather today.” I asked rubbing my eyes, I felt real tried but I had stuff to do and a job to go at so I can't really relax as much. “It's sunny actually, even though the news said otherwise.” She said opening the curtains of the room to let the light in. “MY EYES!” I screamed inside my head, I hated whenever anybody did that. “I'm going to take a bath.” I told Fluttershy as I got up to grab some clothes from my closet. “Ok, want something for breakfast?” She asked me heading towards the door. “Bacon sandwich please.” I said joking around, I knew she didn't really like me eating meat and the look on her face really showed it. “I'm kidding, I have whatever you have.” I said before going into the bathroom, she proceeded to leave the the room. --- “Good morning Fluttershy!” Pinkie greeted as she saw Fluttershy walking downstairs. “Oh good morning Pinkie, how are you today?” Fluttershy replied to her always energetic friend. “I'm doing great, actually I was about to go with Rainbow Dash to play some games!” Those two became really fond of video games, Pinkie mainly played it for fun but Dash and Applejack were more of competitive gamers. None the less they had fun with it. “That's nice maybe I’ll play with you girls later.” Fluttershy was happy that her friends were here. “Well I'm going to go make breakfast for me and Peter.” Fluttershy said before heading towards the kitchen. “Okie dokie lokie!” Pinkie resumed to bounce towards her destination. They seemed to have gotten used to this world really quick, like if it was just another part of Equestria. --- “Okay so what are you going to need me to do?” I said as I walked into the living room where Twilight told to be, I didn't know what she wanted to do with me or what she needed but hey, I didn't mind helping a friend. “Oh there you are, I'm just going to do a little inspecting on you so I’m going to need you to lay down on the couch” Twilight answered, she was reading some various books of mine that I brought from my parents house. “Okay sounds easy enough.” I said as I went to lay down on the couch. “Okay now I'm going to need you to take of you clothes.” She said turning away from her book to look at me. “What now?” I said not sure if I heard right. “Take off your clothes, I need to examine your body for a report.” She repeated herself, to my fear I had heard right. “But can't you examine me with my clothes on?” I said trying to avoid the whole situation, this was rather uncomfortable. “Oh come on please, I need all the information I can so I can write a report for the princess.” She begged me, I wasn't quite sure of the whole being naked around a pony idea. “Please Peter!” “No!” After a few minutes of arguing I finally gave in to her pleas. “Okay fine, but please make it quick, I feel uncomfortable doing this.” I said as I started to take off my clothes starting with my shirt. “Oh thank you Peter, I assure you this will be worth it.” She said happy about the whole situation. “It better be...” I muttered as I started to take of my pants. --- “Wait so you mean to tell me that you actually went commando in front of Twilight just so she could make a report?” Amy said as she walked back and forth in the restaurant kitchen nearly laughing “It wasn't funny, for god's sake don't you know how uncomfortable it was to be naked around a pony.” “No.” She said laughing, she has a good sense of humor that's what I liked about her. “Easy for you to say, you're a girl so it wouldn't have been so awkward in that case but sense I’m a man...” I said remembering what had happened earlier. “Yeah probably, man you have one tough life.” She spoke up, wiping a tear off her face. “What do you mean?” I asked turning to look at her, I didn't find anything tough in my life ever what is she talking about. “Yeah you know with all their personalities and stuff, for example, Rainbow has quite an ego and you can't deny that, Rarity will most likely be all over the bad fashions and how they suck, Twilight well let's say you already got a taste of whats to come from her part, and well Pinkie yeah I guess you can see where I'm going.” She said, now that I think about it, she is right maybe it's not all sunshine with these ponies. “Well, maybe that's true but so far they haven't done anything...besides Twilight.” I said trailing off at the last part, Amy managed to hear me and started laughing again. “Come on, enough already plus you have some orders to take out.” I said picking up my fair share of orders that had to be taken out. --- “I'm home!” I called out into the house as I arrived, I could hear what could only be the girls playing in the living room, I've got to hand it to them they really enjoyed their video games, but hey it kept them busy and who was I to take it away. “Hey Peter what's up?” Dash said as I entered the living room to find everypony except Twilight there. “Not much just a bit tired, hey where is Twilight?” I said letting my backpack fall to the ground next to me. “She's probably in her room, why darling?” Rarity answered not looking away from the TV. “Just wanted to know, anyway I’m going to grab something to eat, I'm famished.” I walked over to the kitchen to see Fluttershy doing the dishes, it was her turn according to the schedule, I needed to talk to Twilight to ask her for a favor but that would have to wait. “Hey Fluttershy.” I said walking in and grabbing the bread from up on the fridge. “Oh you're back, how was your day?” She asked setting down the dishes and turning over to look at me. “Meh, it was okay I guess, not really that much interesting.” Nothing really happened ever at that job but hey it was better that way, I reached into the refrigerator to grab some ham and cheese, I know none of them didn't like to see me eat meat but I couldn't stand going without meat every now and then. “Well that's nice.” Fluttershy turned around to finish her duties. “On Saturday we're going to go to the theater.” I said opening a can of soda to accompany my meal. “Really? Which movie are we going to see?” She turned around again but this time more excited then what she was. “I don't know yet but you have until then to see which one.” I said winking at her, I always let her choose cause I really don't mind which movie it is, I enjoy all of them alike. “Well I've got to talk to Twilight.” I said before grabbing my sandwich and soda to head towards her room. “Okay then, I’m just going to finish this up and I'm going to sleep.” She said rinsing a few dishes. “Alright then.” I said before heading upstairs, Twilight's room was the first one on the second floor, I walked up to the door and knocked. “Hey Twi, I need to ask you favor.” I said before walking in, she had a what could only be a 'controlled' mess in her room but I didn't mind. “Oh hey Peter I didn't hear you arrive.” She greeted me while waving her hoof. “Thanks for helping me on my report, I'm sure the Princess will enjoy reading this.” She said as she finished writing down on a piece of paper. “Yeah no problem... Anyway, I needed to ask you about something.” I said remembering the embarrassing events of that day. “Sure what is it?” She turned away from her desk to face me. “I wanted to know if by any chance if there is a spell that could make you and the other girls look like humans.” I asked, I thought this would make it easier for taking them to different places to have fun instead of being locked in here all the time. “You mean like a cloaking or camouflage spell?” She said thinking for a moment before looking back at me. “Exactly.” “Hmm... I think there is one spell that could get the job done!” > Chapter 11: Dolly's Cafe > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 11: Dolly's Cafe. Thankfully it was Friday and this means it's one of my days off the other one being Saturday which I already had plans for tomorrow, but today since it was raining, it was a pretty good day to stay inside with the girls and do nothing but relax. I remembered we were going to try that transformation spell today but that would wait until later, right now I was busy cleaning up my room, not exactly how I planned relaxing today but it was better than attending a bunch of people at the same time. --- My phone rang, it was laying next to my bed so it was close enough to just reach out and grab it, to my surprise it was Pamela so I answered right away, we've been hanging out more this last year but she has had a boyfriend so I really couldn't make any moves. “Hello?” I said not trying to sound overexcited. “Peter?” I heard her say. “Yeah, how are you?” I asked her, she sounded strange. “Are you going to be busy later on?” She asked, she sounded a little sad. “No not really, why?” I asked her, it had been a while since I had hung out with her so I guess I could take some time today to do so. “Do you think we could talk later on at Dolly's Cafe?” She asked, she really like that place, every time we had we would go there. “Sure no problem, around what time?” I asked sounding highly interested. “How about, 2:30? Is that okay with you?” She asked. “That's perfect, I'll be there.” I said getting up from my bed quickly. “Thanks, see ya later then.” She said before hanging up, I still hadn't taken a bath so I guess it was a good idea to do that know. “Who was it?” I hadn't noticed but Rainbow Dash had walked into my room. “Oh hey! It was just a friend asking me if I could go see her.” I said as I went to get my towel. “Are you going?” She asked again tilting her head a bit. “Yeah, I really like this chick and I'd do anything for her.” I said smiling a bit. “Can I come?” Her question struck me unannounced but I was afraid she couldn't “Well I would like that, but let's say nobody besides a few people know you girls exist but if that wasn't the case I would love for you to go.” I gave her a quick breakdown of the situation. “What about that one spell that Twilight said?” She asked again getting closer to me in a demanding position. “Well I mean she can try it but really, I need to go alone to see her plus you girls don't even have clothes so I don't think they would let you in naked.” I began to get a bit frustrated. “Well then we can go get some, that easy.” She said shrugging. “No! You can't come okay, look we'll go out tomorrow, I'll stop by the mall and get you girls some clothes and then we can go out as many times after that.” I said losing my temper a bit and shouting at Dash unintentionally. “Okay, sorry didn't mean to upset you...” Oh crap is that a tear, I didn't mean too. “Sorry... Look sorry but I've been trying to date this chick for that last two years, I just don't want her to think you're my... girlfriend or anything like that.” I said lowering myself to her eye level, I leaned in to explain and give her a quick hug. “Okay, don't sweat it, but I want my clothes to be you know cool.” She gave me a smile, which of course made me feel better, last thing I wanted was to see a sad pony around the house. “Okay. Got it, cool like the best flyer of Equestria.” I said standing back up, I was going to need to know the size of the clothes before actually buying anything. --- “Okay is everypony ready for this?” I asked, Twilight was about to do the spell, she said it was a fairly easy one to pull off even on a lot of ponies. “Yup.” “Of course.” “Always ready!” “Okay here I go “Okay here I go then.” Twilight said then her horn started to light up and in a few seconds there was big flash and as it was meant to be, there in the living room were six humanized and... “Naked? The hell!” I said out loud, it was meant to be just a thought. I thought it would be like in movies when they grow or turn into something else they usually keep there clothes. I quickly shielded my eyes, so I couldn't see them naked. “Ohh! What are these things?” Pinkie pie said touching her fingers in her hand. “What are THESE?” Applejack asked motioning with her hands towards her breast. Twilight, who had read and anatomy book from my high school began to explain a bit about there current bodies, I took the time to go up to my room and grab some clothes to use as reference when I went to the mall. After a few minutes I came back with a handful of clothes that seemed to fit them. “Okay put this on and I can use this to base what size of clothes to buy.” I said handing them various shirts, pants and socks. There was no point in not looking, after all they were just my friends. “Oh this are just awful.” Rarity said as she put on a plane white shirt, it seemed to fit her but she just didn't like it. “I like this one!” Dash said, she had put on a red one with a skull in the middle. “Um Peter?” Fluttershy came behind me and touched me on the shoulder. “Oh what's up Fluttershy?” I said turning around to face her, she was quick she already had a shirt and pants on that seemed to fit fine. “Where are you going?” She asked me, I guess she overheard me talking with Rainbow Dash. “Just going to talk to my friend I really like and then to the mall, why?” I asked her. “No just wanted to know...” She said sounding a bit sad. “Oh okay, anyway I have to get going, in this weather the streets are going to be really slow.” I said turning to look at my watch. “You girls finish trying on the clothes and when you find something that fits, call me and tell me the sizes of the clothing.” I said to all of them, it was going to be hard now that I think about it, boy and girl sizes are a little different. “Okay take care then!” Pinkie Pie said as she tried on some pants that seemed to be too big for her. “You girls too.” I said before leaving, I gave Fluttershy a quick goodbye kiss in the cheek and then I grabbed my keys and jacket to head out to Dolly's. --- “Hey there!” I said sitting down in the chair where Pamela was sitting at waiting for me. “Hey, just on time.” She said giving me a weak smile. “So, what did you want to talk about?” I asked wanting to get straight to the point, she seemed a lot sadder then how she sounded on the phone. “Well... I-I broke up with Tristan...” She said almost breaking into full bawl. “What? After all these years? Why, I mean if I can know...” I tried to comfort her, it was bad enough that some people were looking at us. “I found him in his car with another girl.... they were...Oh how can he have done such a thing?” She said now starting to cry, I always knew he was a douche, but to do this? To HER? “Wow...I'm sorry, but I'm going to be honest but, I can't say I didn't see this coming.” “What do you mean?” “Well first of all, you were like his 7th girlfriend so you know that should be enough to start off the bad reputation and plus, most of his previous girlfriends were chicks that he cheated on.” I said, I knew him since middle school he was always a trouble maker but always had the 'moves' to make any chick fall for him. “And it wouldn't surprise me if he got any of them pregnant.” I shrugged at the single thought of it. “I guess...your right... oh god I'm so stupid” I said lower her face to the table. “No, you're not. It was just a really bad decision that lasted 3 years, but hey at the end he is the one that's going to suffer, cause he has no idea of what a wonderful person he just lost.” I said bringing her head up so she could look me in the eyes. “Oh Peter...You always know what to say...” She said giving off a faint smile. “So I'm guessing you kicked him out of your apartment?” I said, there is no way I would if this happened to me. “No... I left all his stuff outside as a sign that he is no longer welcomed, plus I changed the lock yesterday... Anyway... How have you been, why did you change from a little house to big one and still drive a van?” She said joking around wanting to stop talking about the incident. “Well, with 6 roommates you need a big space to fit them all.” I said joking around myself. “Really? I didn't know you had roommates.” She said sounding interested. “Yeah, all girls actually.” “Wow... You must be living every guys dream, living in a house full of girls.” She said. “Well not really I mean they're only friends and well I'm really careful around some things but other than that it's all normal stuff.” I explained so she wouldn't get the wrong idea. “Hmm... definitely interesting.” She stirred her coffee which I hadn't noticed she had, she seemed lost in thoughts. --- “Hey girls, can I tell you all a secret, something Peter can't know about this.” Fluttershy told her friends who were now all dressed, they were about to call Peter but this sudden conversation had delayed that. “Sure, no problem sugercube.” Applejack said still getting more used to walking on two legs in her current form. “Sure what is it?” Rainbow Dash also added, wanting to know this secret. “Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Pinkie recited her promise like she did when keeping a secret or making a promise. “Well it's just that...I-I think... I love him.” She said almost silent on the last part. Her friends just stared at her for a short while which for her felt like an eternity. “That's...OK!” Pinkie finally spoke out. “Well that's cool, why don't you tell him?” Dash asked. “I mean you two have know each other for almost 3 years now, and for most of the time he was the one person who always made sure you were okay and happy, that obviously means he cares.” “But there is one problem.” I said turning her head not facing her friends. “What would that be darling?” Rarity asked going to sit down next to her friend. “Yeah tell us, we won't tell Peter.” Twilight sat on the other side of her. “He likes another girl, the one he went to go talk to.” She said turning to face all of them. “Well nothin' written in stone sugercube, maybe he doesn't start dating her.” Applejack added trying to make Fluttershy feel better. “Yeah I'm sure we can come up with something so he falls for you! Like a party or something.” Pinkie suggested hopping over to Fluttershy. “Thank you girls, but I don't want to interfere in this, he has been trying to go out with her since I arrived in this world.” Fluttershy admitted, even though she liked him, she couldn't just come out of the blue and say it. “We can try and persuade him without him even realizing it.” Twilight suggested . --- I came back home after about an hour or two later, bags full of women clothes, instead of going to the mall I went to other stores where the clothes would be less pricey, I managed to get a good variety so they could all chose what they were going to want but I made sure to pick based on there tastes, Rarity was the hardest out of all but I think she'll be happy with most of it. “Girls, I’m home! I brought the clothes so come and look and pick out what you want.” I said walking into the living room, with in a few seconds they were here except for. “Hey where is Fluttershy?” I asked she wasn't with them. “She's upstairs.” Twilight said digging through the bags “What is she doing?” I asked. “Beats me.” Dash said lying on the couch “Well I'm going to go check on her.” I said before heading towards the stairs but not before really taking a look at them, I really hadn't examined them in their human form, but they look okay to say the least, besides the fact of their hair color, they could pass off as humans perfectly, hell they even looked cute. Twilight was somewhere between tan and caucasian, she was just a bit shorter than no more than an inch, her hair went just ever so slightly under her shoulders. Pinkie was white, pink fluffy hair and to my surprise was actually thinner than i would've imagined. Her eyes were as blue as the sky itself. Rarity was taller then me but only by a bit, her hair was as purple and curly as in the show and she also had the eye shadow that was always evident. Applejack was the easiest to pass of as a human, she was blond, white and had light brown freckles on both her cheeks. Her eyes were a vibrant green Finally Rainbow Dash, her eyes were dark magenta and as expected rainbow colored hair that went down to her shoulders she was as tall as me but alot more thin than me. They all looked great and there was nothing that could point them out as ponies. The only thing that could be subject of matter would be their hair color but that can be solved by saying it's hair dye. --- “Fluttershy, you in here?” I asked opening the door to our room. I quickly noticed she was asleep, and damn be it she looked real cute laying in the bed with some of he hair resting on her face. She was caucasian with her hair stopping in her lower back and if she were awake i could see those lovely turquoise eyes of hers I decided to just let sleep all she wanted I went and sat down at my desk where my laptop was, i could play for a while until it was time for dinner or until Fluttershy woke up, which ever happend first would be just ok. > Chapter 12: Sleep > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 12: Sleep It was about six in the afternoon, almost time for dinner, I paused my game and right on time, I was playing amnesia and I was running away from a monster before deciding to go downstairs to help out. Fluttershy was still asleep but I guess I would wake her before the food was ready. “Need any help.” I said walking in the kitchen where Twilight and Applejack were already working on the food, actually it seemed almost done. “Yeah, can you pass me a tomato from the fridge please? We're just about done.” Twilight asked me, I really didn't know what they were making but I had gotten used to eating pony food, just every once in a while I would eat something I really wanted like a hamburger. “Hey where is Fluttershy?” Applejack asked. “She's still sleeping.” “Wow, she must have really been tired.” Twilight commented. “What did you girls do while I wasn't here?” I asked, I really had no idea what could have made Fluttershy sleep like that, it's not like her. “Well we-” Just before Applejack could speak there was a loud yell coming from upstairs, I guess all the other girls must of heard it since I heard them move throughout the house, me being really concerned about one of them being hurt I hurried up, I figured it might be Fluttershy since it sounded like her. I rushed in through the door of our room to find her lying a few feet away from my desktop, crying. I noticed the game on my laptop wasn't paused anymore which indicated me what had been the cause of her being scared. I quickly grabbed her between my arms.” Fluttershy calm down, it's okay I'm here, it was just a game.” I said trying to comfort her, she quickly hugged me and sunk her head into my chest, I could feel my shirt getting wet due to her tears. “Calm down please, everything is okay.” I said once more rubbing her back in the hopes of getting her to stop crying. She finally looked up at me. I was blown away by her beautiful aqua-colored eyes. “Wow...” I mumbled out by accident, I was lost in those eyes, hell now that she is awake I can fully see her. “I woke up and saw you had that game paused... I just turned around and...” She managed to speak out, I didn't think a game could possibly scare the heck out of someone like that, but I guessed it managed to do it with her. “Now, now. It's my fault, I shouldn't have left it on knowing it could scare you like this.” I said again rubbing her back, she seemed to be calming down a lot more now. “Come on, get up it's all right, let's go downstairs and have dinner.” I helped her onto her two feet before turning around to head towards the door but just before I started walking I felt her grasp me again, I simply turned around and returned the hug before ending it. “What happened?” Rainbow Dash was standing outside the door along with Pinkie and Rarity. “She got scared due to this one horror game I was playing, she'll be fine.” I answered, before walking down where Twilight and Applejack both asked me the same thing. --- The night brought with it another rainstorm which this time around included thunder and lighting. Fluttershy was having a nightmare due to the game, she kept moving around until she couldn't stand it anymore. She got up from her bed and walked towards mine. “Um...Peter?” She said giving a soft push on my shoulder. “Huh? What?” I said waking up disoriented. “Um... Peter... mind if I... I sleep with you tonight?” She asked, strange only once has she asked me if she could sleep with me but now that I think about it, it was on a night like this one. “Sure, no problem.” I said moving a little so she could fit. “Is it because of the game?” I asked her, I just saw her move her head up and down. “Don't worry you'll be okay here.” I said before closing my eyes to resume my slumber. “Thank you...” Fluttershy said in a really rather low voice that Peter didn't even here most likely due to the fact that at the same moment there was a loud thunder in the dark rainy night. She felt safe around him, even though he was oblivious of her feelings towards him. She still didn't have an idea on how to approach him about what she thought and felt, but she had to think fast before she lost him for Pamela or anybody else. --- I woke up rather early and for some reason I felt extremely good this morning, not only because I didn't have to work today but for some reason everything just felt right. I hadn't noticed Fluttershy until I took off the covers to get up, she had her head rested on my chest and one of her arms wrapped around my waist. I carefully moved her so she be rested against my pillow before heading downstairs to make some coffee After a few minutes the coffee maker was done making it's magic, I served myself a cup. I hadn't noticed what there was beyond our terrain, only thing I know is that there are some woods were our land ends, I guess I could go for a morning walk. I started to think as I walked, nothing in particular but just everything that has happened to me until this moment; Meeting Fluttershy, winning one million dollars, meeting the other ponies, getting friend-zoned by the girl I love, seeing the ponies as humans. It was a lot for just one life and I'm grateful for every moment especially the ones spent with Fluttershy... I didn't want to let go of her... It's at this point when I realized one thing. What was going to happen when they do actually leave and never comeback? I've spent my last two years taking care of her and making sure nothing happened to her, such as to buy a house for her and her friends. I tried not to think about it too much, I had finished my coffee at this point and it was time to head back down the road I came. --- When I arrived back home I noticed nopony was awake yet and I still felt a rather bit sleepy even after the coffee so I guess I might as well go an crawl into bed again. Once I reached my bed I noticed Fluttershy was still in the same position that I had left her but as soon as I laid down she turned around and went back to the position she was in when I woke up, I thought it was strange but at the same time I thought it was cute and to be honest I liked it, I even wrapped my arms around her, and not to think about it to much but when I did this, she seemed to have smiled. --- “Hey girls.” I said walking into the kitchen, everybody was having breakfast, I really wasn't hungry so I guess some cereal would be just fine. “Howdy Peter.” “Good morning darling.” “Hi!” “So you girls ready to go to the movies today?” I asked them, still not sure what movie we were going to see but I didn't mind. “Hay yeah! It's going to be awesome to finally go out somewhere.” Rainbow exclaimed, she seemed really excited about this “Well you might want to get ready cause today not only are we going to go watch a movie, we're also going to do other various activities.” I said sitting down to enjoy my bowl of cereal “Like what?” Pinkie asked. “I don't know but we have the whole day to see what other fun things there are around this city, I was thinking maybe something like... go kart! That would be fun.” I said, it's been awhile since I went to them, sure maybe it would be hard for them but I imagine it'd be simple to explain to them how it works. “I don't know what that is but it sounds fun!” Pinkie shouted out. “Well in that case I better start getting ready.” Rarity said finishing her breakfast quickly. “You know it takes time to get a lady looking presentable.” I didn't know why she wanted to be 'presentable' for a movie, and when she got to the go karts she would most likely freak out about how messy it looks but oh well. “Yeah well same here.” Applejack added as she too finished her breakfast. One by one they finished their breakfast until it was just me and Fluttershy left. “How you sleep?” I asked her while smiling, I certainly enjoyed it. “Oh... I-It was great...” She said looking away while blushing. “Did you manage to sleep well after you laid down with me?” I was mainly just playing around not trying to be too serious. “I-I well...Um...” She mumbled out before getting up quickly. “Wait, wait sorry didn't mean to upset you.” I said grabbing her arm as she past by me. “Oh don't worry... It's not because of that.” She said trying to break free, I didn't put up much resistance either way. “Then why the sudden reaction?” I asked letting her go. “It's nothing really... it's just that I have to get ready for today.” She answered, she avoided looking at me the whole time. “Well...if you say so.” It seemed odd for her to act like this, even more when it came to talking to me. Anyway I let her go upstairs to get ready, in the mean time I could play some xbox while they got ready --- “Oh girls what am I going to do?” Fluttershy said as she had her face buried on a pillow. “Why don't you just tell him?” Twilight asked as she combed her hair with her magic. “I can't, what if he gets scared?” She said turning to face her friend. “Why would he?” Dash asked coming out of the bathroom with wet hair indicating she just finished showering. “Well first off, I'm a pony and I don't think he would like that.” She explained. “I guess you're right.” Twilight thought for a moment. “But what if you just stay in human form the whole time?” She suggested. “That could work.” Dash said. “But then he would only like me for what I look like and not for what I really am.” Fluttershy said. “True...” Twilight simply shrugged. “Well I guess I have no other choice but telling him personally but I'll wait til it's the right time...” Fluttershy simply got up and left the room. “You think he'll say no?” Dash asked facing Twilight. “I doubt it, those two have lived quite a relationship as for him to say no, plus you've seen how Peter is with her, she really matters to him and this would only give him one more reason to love her.” “Even as a pony?” Dash asked. “Yes, even as a pony.” “Everypony ready?” I called out throughout the house, the first one to show up was Dash, she was after all the fastest. “Ready as always.” She said as she went to stand near the door to wait for the rest. “Okay then, may I add you look great.” I said playing around. “Yeah, yeah.” She said reclining against the door frame as we waited for the other girls. --- The drive to the theater was... interesting to say the least. Pinkie wouldn't stop waving at all the people she saw, it was kind of embarrassing but oh well it is after all Pinkie, the others would just talk to each other and every now and then ask me what that place was or what this thing is. Fluttershy was silent though, she only talked when they asked her or told her something. She seemed to be thinking and was only looking out the front passenger window, I was starting to worry for her. “What's wrong?” I asked turning to look at her, the traffic light was on red so I had a few seconds to talk to her. “Huh? Oh nothing, why?” She sighed a little before looking at me. “Well you seem a bit... strange today.” I said, was she homesick? Was it something I said or did? “Why won't you tell me?” I said grabbing her hand, she simply moved it away it was that action that made me think it might be me. “I'm okay really...” She turned back to looking outside the window, I became sad to the fact that I didn't know what was wrong and that she didn't let me help. After a few minutes we pulled up to the parking lot, when we got off there was a family going in, they just looked at us funny, probably due to the fact that it was one guy with six colorful-haired girls, anyway that was the least of my worries now. “Okay, here take this and go buy some popcorn and sodas or whatever you girls want.” I handed Pinkie my debit card. “Okey Dokey Lokey!” She said before running off to the confectionery stand. “You want anythin' partner?” Applejack asked me, Fluttershy went off to follow Pinkie just to make sure she didn't exceed herself with the buying. “Just a soda.” I said. “Hello, welcome to Movie-Plaza!” The guy behind the ticket booth greeted me, seemed like a fellow of my age but only every so slightly dumber. “Hey.” I simply greeted while I looked at the movie billboard that contained all the schedules, there were a lot of interesting movies to watch. “Man dude, are they all your friends?” I was interrupted by the ticket guy's question. “Yeah, well they're really my roommates, why?” I asked confused a bit. “Have you've done it with all of them?” He asked again. “Oh great a stoner.” I thought before answering his question. “No, I'll have you now that I totally respect them as to do such a thing, especially with all of them.” I said a bit angry at the guy. What a jerk. “Chill bro, don't need to get your panties in a bunch.” God I wanted to punch this guy right now. “Just shut up and give 7 tickets to The Hunger Games.” I went to meet up with the girls at the stand and I guess I should have saw it coming. Pinkie was up to her head with snacks, popcorn and other various edibles. “Jesus, do you plan on finishing all that?” I said still looking at the crazy amounts of food she had bought, I didn't mind her eating it what I did mind was the amount of money she used to buy all this. “Of course not silly! I plan on sharing as well!” She commented somehow managing to juggle all that food on her two hands. “Need any help at least?” “Sure!” She handed me over about half the stuff she bought, I guess there was one of everything they were selling in this pile, no wait, there is two of those... “Here ya go sugercube, your soda you asked for.” Applejack just piled the soda on the very top of everything else I was holding, let's just hope this doesn't fall. “Can we please go and find some seats please? I think I'm going to drop some of this stuff.” I was really only talking about the soda but I just wanted to sit down next to Fluttershy and try and talk to her a bit more. “Yeah here let me grab the ticket.” Twilight said before using her magic to grab them from my hand, I started to panic a little, mainly due to the fact that someone may be watching. “Can you please be careful with the whole magic thing?” I asked her looking around, sadly there was a little kid that saw us but I doubt his parents will believe him. --- The movie was okay and Jennifer Lawrence did a pretty good job as well and even though I would prefer to read the books. I had other things on my mind though. They all seemed to be enjoying themselves, except, Fluttershy. She didn't show any emotion, not the most minimal reflex. I couldn't take it anymore, it made me sad knowing I couldn't do anything and that I myself could be the problem. I walked out without saying anything, I wanted to cry and I didn't need them to see me, I went all the way outside since I didn't want to cry in the hallway where I could disturb all the other people watching After a few minutes I was done and decided to return before any of them went looking for me. “Where were you?” Applejack asked, she was walking around the lobby, I guess she went looking. “Um... Bathroom...” I said wiping my nose with my sleeve. “Then why were ya outside?” She asked again. “I forgot if I had locked the doors on the car or not.” I tried to play it cool but my eyes ratted me out. “Were you cryin'?” “No.” “Don't lie to me...” “Okay yes, so what?” I said trying to walk ahead of her. “Why?” “It's nothing really.” I said trying to sound as confident as possible. “Come on, you can tell.” This time she took the lead and stop in front of me, reflexively I did the same. “No.” “Tell me!” “Fine, alright! It's Fluttershy! I'm pissed because she has something and she won't tell me!...All I know is that I might be the problem...” I said trailing off at the last part. “Wait, so ya care for her?” She asked me. “Yes... I care for her so much that her sadness is making me sad, Applejack, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I...” tears started to form around my eyes. “Yes? Go on...” She leaned in bit to hear what I had to say. “I guess I'm trying to say that I care for her beyond the level then a normal friend would like another friend.” I spewed out. “Oh... I know what you mean.” She simply patted me on the back before we entered the room again. --- After the movie we didn't do much, we just went to the arcade and to eat something, pretty fun day but not for me, we got home at around 8:30 at night, we were all exhausted, Pinkie and Fluttershy fell asleep on the way back so I was going to have to carry them to their rooms. “Wow today was just great.” Dash commented as we all got out of the van. “Yeah, despite the fact that the arcade was a bit nasty and dirty, I had fun.” Rarity added. “Good, that was the point.” I said unbuckling Pinkie to take her up to her bed. “Here, I'll carry her.” Applejack said trying to move me aside. “Oh it's no problem really.” I said. “It's alright, you take Fluttershy.” She said looking at me, she gave me a wink and I understood right away. “Dang it sure is hot tonight even though it looks like it's going to rain.” Twilight said fanning herself with her hands. “Yeah you girls might want to wear those pajamas I bought you, the ones that have shorts.” I said lifting Fluttershy, I rested her head against my chest and held her tucking my hands under her upper-legs and her back. “Oh so that's what those are.” Rainbow Dash said, good thing they didn't wear them to the movies otherwise that stoner guy would have gone crazy. All the girls said goodnight and headed towards their respective rooms, I was left to the task of changing Fluttershy into her pajamas, which was kind off strange but oh well, I did as fast as possible without looking and then went to rest her on her bed. “Huh?” She said opening her eyes slowly. “Oh, hey. You fell asleep on the way home and I carried you all the way here.” I told her before walking over to my bed. “Really? Sorry...” She said. “For what?” I asked turning around to look at her. “For falling asleep and making you carry me...” I wasn't sure if she was sleep talking, yet again she hasn't apologized for things that are as simple as this in a long time. “Fluttershy... Can I ask you something?” I asked getting closer to her bed. “What is it?” “Why are you acting like this? Ever since last night you've been acting strange, did I say or do something to offend you?” I asked leaning down to look at her. “Well... Um no....” She said turning around to look away. “Then what's wrong?” I demanded more than sounding like I was asking. “Nothing.” She responded. “Bull... Please Fluttershy, you have no reason to fear me, you can trust me with no matter how big the issue is. If you let me help you, together we can find a solution.” “I said... nothing.... is....WRONG!” She turned around and yelled in my face. “FINE THEN! DON'T TELL ME DAMN IT! I have no clue why you don't trust me now or how bad the fucking problem is.” I shouted louder then her but it was a bad move, she started crying. “You... c-can't help me... I-it's my problem and I've got to figure out a solution by myself...” She said sinking her face into her pillow, she started to cry softly. “Oh god damn it... Fine you know what then? Fine, turn yourself into a wreck all on your own because you aren't willing to accept any help.” I said before walking out the room and heading towards the stairs. “No wait, Peter!” Fluttershy quickly got up from her bed and started following me. I headed out the back door towards the woods. “Peter! Please come back! It's raining.” Fluttershy called out from inside the house. “No fuck it! For the last 2 years I've helped you out and you've helped me out, but this... This is unacceptable, you won't even say what the problem is!” I yelled out not turning around for a single glimpse. “But...” She said before I interrupted her. “No buts! I don't want you to follow me! Same goes for you Dash! Don't think I didn't see you.” I noticed when I was coming out that there was a little batch of rainbow-colored hair sticking out from one of the bushes. “Peter wait!” Fluttershy was about to run off before Twilight grabbed her from behind. “No, let him. He'll comeback when he is ready...” She said looking at Fluttershy directly into her eyes. “But...” “No buts.... just... patience” > Chapter 13: Regrets > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 13: Regrets “I am such an idiot,” I thought to myself. I had spent the last twelve hours awake, nine of which were raining as hard as possible. I had thought up every single scenario of what could have been wrong with Fluttershy... every one except for the most obvious one. She likes me, and there is nothing more to it. She likes me, and I like her. Or, at least, she used to like me. I guess there was no point in going back to apologize; I figure she would be angry at me. Even though she isn't like this, she would ask to return to Equestria and never come back. I do deserve it, after all. I sat at an old tree log that rested against one of the lake's shores. I was really wet still, so it's likely that I would get sick. “Well, I should head home, time to face whatever lays ahead for me...” I slowly stood up, quivering from the cold rain water that still resided in my clothes. --- “Girls, we've got to go look for Peter,” Twilight suggested. The Mane 6, except for Fluttershy, were standing in the living room. They had all heard the feud and were concerned about both of them. “Never in two years have they fought. Why now, all of the sudden?” Pinkie asked. “Well, that's 'cause they're in love with each other.” Applejack said. “Wait, so Peter does like Fluttershy?” Rarity asked. “Yup. He told me yesterday at the movie theater," Applejack replied. She was the only one that knew this, but there was a real good hint on to where this whole dilemma could end. “Now we defiantly have to find him! Come on, let's get going!” Rainbow sprung up from her seating place, ready for action. “Sure, but we're going to need aerial vision," Twilight said, facing Rainbow Dash. "I’m going to turn us back to ponies.” She hurriedly used her magic, and in a matter of seconds, they were galloping out of the back door, heading towards the woods to find Peter. --- I walked in through the front door of the house after a few minutes of walking down by the lake. “Hello? Anypony here?” I called out into the empty house. I began my way upstairs to change, all the while hoping to find somepony. My efforts are in vain- it seems like I was right, they did leave... And I have nobody to blame but myself. I stopped in the middle of the staircase to cry. I couldn't believe I messed up so bad that I was starting to have a nervous breakdown, but I managed to continue upstairs. I walked straight into my room and headed towards my closet while taking off my semi-wet shirt. Right as I was about to put on a new one, I noticed a ball covered by sheets on Fluttershy's bed. As I walked closer I noticed it was moving. “F-Fluttershy?” I slowly removed the sheets from the lump, revealing a shaking tan pony. By the looks of the damp pillow, she was crying. She launched herself at me with such a force that it knocked me down. “Oh, Peter! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make you feel bad!” She apologized. I felt her tears fall onto my bare skin, and this caused me to renew my own crying. It wasn't even her fault, yet she was still feeling guilty about it. “Fluttershy, look at me.” I sat up and moved her face so she could see me. “The one that has all the fault here is me. I'm the one that screamed at you, but that's because I was stupid and had a bunch of emotions running through me. Besides, the way you acted in the car before we got to the theater made me think that I may have been the problem. And after last night, I was afraid of coming back here.” We were now sitting up on the ground, she had her front hooves wrapped around my neck. “W-why is that?” She asked, looking up at me. Damn, I love those eyes. “I don't know. I thought maybe you would be mad at me and would go back to Equestria, never to return.” This time I look away. I know it wasn't like her to do anything like this, but there was always that small chance. “I-I would never do that...” She said. I quickly turned back and smiled at the news. “So... Then why were you acting so strange?” I asked her. I already knew, but I needed her to say it. “I-It's because... Oh, Peter! I just don't know how to say it!” She said, burying her head into my chest like how she did before. “Then why don't you just show it...” I said leaning my face closer to her. “Huh?” She said. “We can't always say what we feel, but we can show it...” We slowly leaned into each other until our lips met. It felt amazing, her lips brushing against my own. “Is that really what you really feel?” I asked her as our lips separated. She nodded, blushing furiously. “Because that's what I feel for you.” I leaned in and kissed her again, this one lasting much longer than the first. --- “That was useless!” Dash said as she flew in through the door. They had searched for about one hour with no success. “We'd better tell Fluttershy then.” Twilight said with her head hanging low. “Do y'all think it's over?” Applejack asked. “What do you mean?” Rarity responded. “Do you think that they no longer like each other? After such a big bond they established?” Applejack looked at all the girls. “We'll just have to wait and see.” Pinkie said, she was rather gloomy herself. They all headed upstairs to tell Fluttershy that they couldn't find Peter, that is, if she even wanted to see them. As soon as they went up and were standing outside the room, they had to choose who would be the one that would tell Fluttershy that Peter was nowhere to be found. They decided that they would send in Rainbow Dash. However, as soon as she walked into the room, her jaw dropped, and she quickly signaled for the rest of the girls to come inside. “What is it?” Rarity asked. They saw that Peter was not only back, but sleeping with Fluttershy. Both of them had smiles on their faces. The other girls were thrilled, not only since Peter was back, but because they had apparently forgiven each other and hadn't ended a great friendship; they may have even taken it a step further than that. “Oh my gosh!” Dash said in joy. “Yay! They made up!” Pinkie said before getting shushed by her friends. They decided to leave them alone as they were, the details could wait for later. --- As I slowly opened my eyes from their slumber, first thing I saw was Fluttershy looking at me with her big bright aqua-colored eyes. “Hey...” I said slowly brushing the hair of her face so I could get a full look at it. “Hi...” She responded smiling at me, a small blush forming on her cheeks. Damn, it was way better when she did it in real life than when she did it in the show. I wrapped my arm around her and brought her closer to me; I wanted to feel her warm body against mine. “Do you think we should go talk to the girls?” Fluttershy suggested as she nuzzled my neck with her nose. “Yeah, just so they know I'm back and tell them the news.” I removed the covers before getting up, Fluttershy doing the same. --- The other girls were in the living room, playing a Call of Duty tourney. “Hey girls!" I said, walking in with Fluttershy beside me. “Oh! You guys are awake!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she paused her screen before getting up from the ground where she was sitting. “Umm... yeah.” Fluttershy simply replied. “So, I'm guessing you guys made up?” Twilight asked. She wasn't playing, so she didn't have to worry about pausing the game. “That's right.” I assured her. “We're more then just friends now.” Fluttershy said, blushing a bit. I guess she was a bit embarrassed to say it and may have wanted me to say that. “Oh, really?” Dash said jokingly. “Yeah. I'm happy to say that Fluttershy and I are officially dating!” I said, excited a bit. To this, the girls cheered, and at first I was confused a bit by their reaction, but I guess they saw this coming. --- “Okay. Applejack, are you ready?” Twilight asked. She was about to preform a spell that could take her back to Equestria. This was her first time performing it, and I wasn't quite sure what the outcome would be. “Ready when you are, sugercube!” Applejack said. She felt a bit scared, but this could be helpful, since Applebuck season was about to start. Her family was going to need her, and that's the reason why she volunteered. “Okay, then. Here goes nothing...” Twilight said, whispering the last part before her horn started glowing. In a matter of seconds, a big blast of light engulfed the whole room before simmering down. “Wait, what the hay!” Applejack said. She still remained where she was, as did Twilight. “What happened? It didn't work?” Twilight said looking around the room. Everything seemed normal and nothing was out of place. “Are ya sure you aimed at me?” Applejack asked looking towards a confused Twilight. “Yes, but maybe it doesn't work like that.” “Wait a darn minute. If ya didn' teleport me, then WHO did you teleport? "Peter?" The ponies turned to Fluttershy, who had spoken up. "Peter? Peter! Where are you!?!?" > Chapter 14: Equestrian Human > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 14: Equestrian Human “Sorrysorrysorry!” Twilight spoke to a panicking Fluttershy. It turned out the spell worked, just not on the pony it was supposed to send. “Where did you send him?” Dash asked. She was holding back Fluttershy, who was trying to strangle Twilight. “I'm not sure. It could be anywhere around Sweet Apple Acres!” Twilight answered, backing away from them warily. “WE HAVE TO GET HIM BACK!” Fluttershy demanded, redoubling her efforts of trying to break free from Rainbow's. “Hold on, let me try again.” Twilight shut her eyes to concentrate and turned to Applejack once again. Her horn began to glow, and a flash of light engulfed the room. The burst of energy receded, revealing an unhappy earth pony. “What… happened?” Twilight gasped, beads of sweat from the strain of the spell forming on her face. “Hey, where`d the TV go?” --- “Dammitdammitdammit!” I paced back and forth, devising a plan of action. I knew I was in Equestria, but any other details to my location were beyond me. “Okay Peter, calm down.” I told myself, stopping and taking a deep breath. “Let's see…it was Applejack who was supposed to come back, so Twilight was probably going to send her to Sweet Apple Acres. “Let's see... Normal tree, normal tree.... YES! Apple trees!” I noticed rows of them in the distance, and eagerly made my way towards the apple orchard. “Let's hope I can still climb these things.” I finally found the apple grove, and was attempting to get a better view of the farm by getting a treetop view. Slowly, but surely, I managed to get to the very top of one of the trees. Looking for any signs of civilization, I managed to sight a barn, and, a few hills away, the Apple family's home. I scrambled down from the tree and headed towards the house. After navigating through the apple fields and past the barn, I walked up to the Apple family`s home. I went to the front door and knocked, but was met by silence. “Hello?” I called, opening the door slightly and inspecting the inside. The search was in vain; nopony was home. “Great, now what?” I rested my head against the door frame. “Where do I even go?” I stood up to think. “I know! I can go talk to the Princess!” I exclaimed. “She'll know what to do!” I bolted down the dirt road leading towards Ponyville. The town was coming into sight. I had to be careful- I didn`t want to get spotted. I decided to go through the park; it had a lot of trees and bushes. I could keep a lookout on the ponies passing by, just in case I saw somepony that could help, but at the same time keep out of sight... hopefully. “Alright Peter, just keep an eye out on anyone like Spike or Apple Bloom, somebody that knows the girls.” I hid myself in a large bush, and observed what appeared to be the Ponyville marketplace. After a few minutes without finding someone that could help, I noticed the sun starting to set. “Better find somepony quick, or else I'm going to sleep outside.” I moved from bush to bush for another ten minutes, making my way through the town. I peeked through the bushes again, and observed what seemed like the residential side of Ponyville; there were mainly houses and lot less ponies. I took this as a chance to exit my hiding spot, and I sprinted towards a gap between two houses. “Almost there...” I was rounding the corner of one of the houses when a dark magenta pony trotted out right in front of me. “Watch out!” I cried before violently colliding with the equine. “Oh shit!” I cursed, quickly getting up to go and check on the pony. As I ran over to it, I realized the pony was none other than Cheerilee. “Are you okay?” I asked the schoolteacher, who was lying prone on the ground. I tapped on her shoulder, but she didn't respond. I then proceeded to shake her until it was apparent that she had been knocked out. “Great! Now what do I do?” The day just kept going downhill. Despite the situation, I knew there wasn`t any time to complain. I needed to get me and Cheerilee inside before we were seen. She had collided with me while exiting the house- the door, which was still open, was evidence enough. I concluded that this was her home and carried her inside. --- Dear Princess Celestia, Our host here on Earth, Peter, has been mistakenly teleported to Equestria in an attempt to send Applejack back. We believe he is near Sweet Apple Acres, and may attempt to seek you out. We recommend sending a search party for him as soon as possible. Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle The letter rolled up and disappeared in a puff of energy. “*Gasp*... s-s-sent..." Twilight passed out from exhaustion, collapsing in the middle of the now furniture-less room. “Oh, dear, I hope he's alright." Fluttershy had calmed down a bit. “Peter's smart. He'll be fine. Let's just hope he doesn't freak out about royal guards looking for him.” Rarity stated confidently. “Y'all think he'll look for some shelter? Applejack asked. “He could stay with Spike at the library! Or with the Cakes at Sugarcube Corner!” Pinkie remarked. “How is he supposed to know where those places are?” Fluttershy asked Pinkie. “Duh! He saw them on the show, silly!” “It showed the places, but never once did it say how to get to them!” Fluttershy had a point. "But he could just stay at Sweet Apple Acres. Right, AJ?" "Big Mac should be applebuckin' the far west fields 'bout now. Apple Bloom 'n Granny would be helpin' him haul the apples, since I'm not there to help. 'Less Peter was sent to the orchard's western outskirts, he won't see mah family 'till sundown." Applejack explained. “Well then, he truly IS on his own these next few days.” Dash sighed; Peter was going to go through a hell of a time in Equestria. --- Cheerilee began to stir. I laid her on her bed when I came in, and decided to sit in a chair next to the window while I waited for her to wake up. “Mmmmph... w-what… happened?” Cheerilee yawned and sat up. Her eyes were closed, and she probably thought she was alone. Before I could respond, her eyes droopily opened. “W…wuzzat?” She squinted at me before her eyes shot open. “AAAAAHHHH! MONSTER!” “Shhhh! Calm down please!” I slowly backed away, holding my hands up in innocence. “AAAAAHHHH! IT CAN TALK!” This wasn`t going very well. “Please be quite! I can explain, I swear!” I ran over to her. If she won`t shut up by herself, I`ll do it for her. “AAAAAHHHH! GET AWAY FROM MY YOU BSHST! I DGONYT EHVGEN KNIOGW PHYOU!” Her voice muffled as I brought my hand over her mouth. “Please, Cheerilee, just calm down!” She didn`t. Instead, she bit my hand. It didn't hurt that much, but it caused me to recoil. “What was that for?” I whined, wiping my hand before sticking it in my mouth. Cheerilee blinked a few times. Suddenly, she jumped off the bed, her eyes expressing concern. “Oh gosh, I`m sorry! Are you okay?” She looked shocked at her own actions. “I`m fine, don`t worry. Anyways, the name's Peter.” I said, taking my hand out of my mouth; she seemed to have finally calmed down. “Nice to meet you,” I said, holding my hand out to her. “Would you happen to be Cheerilee?” I asked her. “Ummm… Yes?” She cautiously shook my hand. “Why?” She questioned, getting a bit skeptical. “I'm friends with Apple Bloom's and Sweetie Bell's sisters.” I offered. “You mean Applejack and Rarity?” She asked. “Affirmative. You see, I have to get back to them, but in order to do so, I must reach the Princess.” I explained, summing up the situation. “How exactly did you end up here?” Damn, she asks a lot of questions. “Long story short, Twilight was trying to teleport Applejack here, but ended up sending me instead. I've got to get back as soon as possible.” I told her as I got up from the floor. “So, you're saying you need my help to get to Canterlot and reach the Princess herself?” She was trying to understand the situation. “Well not necessarily, I was trying to reach the library and get Spike to help me-” “Oh, it`s no problem, really!” She interrupted. “I'll be more than happy to help. I mean, you didn't mean any harm when you bumped into me.” She smirked. “Well, it wasn't exactly the plan.” “Anyhow, if you intend on getting to Canterlot as soon as possible, then you might want to take the train. Unfortunately, you would have to wait until tomorrow.” She informed me as she took a look outside. It was already night, so I couldn't do much but wait. “You would actually be willing to help me get to Canterlot?” I inquired as she turned around to face me. “Yes, why? Don't believe me?” She asked. “No, but frankly, I thought you would be a lot more scared to talk to me. I mean, just look at me! I appear nothing like anything that would live in Equestria.” I spread my arms and pointed at myself to emphasize my abnormality. “Well, the only reason I was scared at first was that I didn't know who you were. But since you're friends with some of the friendliest ponies in Ponyville, I don't see how you could be bad.” She smiled as she spoke. “I guess that makes sense. Anyways, do you mind if I stay for the night?” I requested. It was too dark to head to the library, anyway. “Sure! That won`t be a problem. Unless… you don't mind sharing the bed, do you?” This news quickly took the smile of my face. “Um... okay, I guess I don't mind...” I laughed weakly. After a few minutes of her getting her pink-striped bed ready, we settled down on opposite sides. For a good while, I sat up, wondering how the girls were faring without him. ‘They’re probably worried sick about me. I have to get to the Princesses ASAP, before they do something crazy,’ I thought as I lay down. However, when I moved my weight tilted the bed over, and Cheerilee rolled onto my shoulder. She was still asleep despite the disturbance. Cheerilee mumbled in her slumber, and then, without warning, one of her hooves wrapped around my waist, and she snuggled against me. --- It was only a few days earlier I woke up to a yellow pegasus caressing me. Now, a magenta earth pony took her place. I hated to think what would happen if Fluttershy walked in right now… Cheerilee and I got up bright and early to go to the train station before everypony else. I told her all I could about humans, and she was fascinated about our technology. We did see a few ponies, but they saw us (me) with more confusion than fear. We made it to the train station without any obstacles. “Okay then, here's your ticket. This train should take you straight to Canterlot.” “Thanks for everything, Cheerilee. If there`s anything I can do to repay you, just ask.” I didn't have any money, so I couldn't really pay her the ticket, but hopefully there was something she wanted. “I have an idea! If you or any of the girls ever come back, could you… I don't know; ummm... take me to your world?” She blushed, looking almost as cute as Fluttershy. “Sure! No problem. Just whenever one of us comes back for a couple of days, tell them that you're tagging along. I'll be sure to tell them.” I already had 6 ponies at my house, one more couldn't hurt. “YAY! I'll be waiting, then! Can't wait!” “All aboard!” Called one of the conductors. “Well then, I guess this is goodbye. Until we see again, Peter!” She trotted off, waving and throwing me a few more ‘goodbyes.’ “Bye, Cheerilee!” I waved as I boarded the train. This is where the hard part came. Not only did I have to get to the castle by myself, but I was going to need to interact with ponies, all of whom probably saw me as a monster. Getting to Canterlot outside a cage would take a miracle. As I boarded, I noticed that any conversations the few passengers were having dropped to a hushed whisper. The rest ride was boring and a bit uncomfortable; everypony that was around myself kept staring at me and whispering things to each other. Gazing down the aisles, I noticed royal guards in entering the car in front of us through a tiny window. They were running towards my car- their target obviously being me. I quickly got up from my seat and started heading for the caboose. I only had to stall them for a few minutes; we weren't far from Canterlot now, and the Castle was fairly close. --- “Come on, guys, please let me go.” My plan had failed, and they managed to get to me before I could find a good hiding spot. “I'm afraid we can't do that. We have direct orders to seek and retrieve you.” One of the guards claimed as we continued walking. I wasn't quite sure where we were going, but I had no choice in the matter. “Orders? From who?” I enquired. Thankfully I wasn`t tied up, and the two guards were in front of me. Now was my chance to escape- we were exiting the train, and I could see the castle. “We have direct orders from prin-” The guard was cut off by his partner, who suddenly halted. “What`s the matter?” “Where did the prisoner go?” The other guard looked around. “Great, you lost him! “No, you did!” The two of them argued for a bit before flying off to tell the princess what had happened, each blaming the other. I was hiding behind a bush when I saw them fly off. Now was my time to get to the castle, but I had to be quick; it was starting to get dark. --- I came out from behind one of the castle gates, apparently the one that led to the royal gardens. It seemed easy to climb and was the only way into the castle grounds, so I proceeded to scale it. It was a tiring task, but after a few minutes I was on the other side. “Peter, you are in some deep shit, man.” I thought to myself as I sneaked through the garden. I was backing against a tree when something bumped into me, causing me to trip and fall on my rear. “Careful, thou… thou?” I looked up, gulping as my gaze was met by none other than the princess of the night- Luna. ‘Shitshitshit’ “What creature dares stand before us?” She queried. She did not speak in the Royal Canterlot Voice, but old English still resonated in her speech. ‘Shitshitshit’ “Shi- Please, have mercy on me, great Princess!” I pleaded. I wasn't quite sure what she was going to do to me. “GUARDS!” She shouted, approaching me. ‘Shitshitshit.’ “WAIT! Calm down! I can explain!” I put on my hand over her mouth. “Lef goth of thynth, thouth ungratful whelf!” Her voice was muffled by my hand, until using her magic to throw me into a tree. I really need to figure out a way to calm ponies down without gagging them. Before I could recover, the same two guards from the train appeared. “There you are!” One of them affirmed. “You're coming with us, this instant!” The other declared. I had no choice but to follow them, Luna right behind me. I was afraid that she might do something to me, but I managed to get a glimpse at her face. For some reason, she was grinning. “Aww, crap...” Celestia, I wanna go home! > Chapter 15: Trolluna > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 15: Trolluna [MATURE WARNING] Today had been pretty crappy. I woke up to a magenta pony snuggling me (okay, so that wasn`t the bad part), caught a train to Canterlot, got captured by royal guards, absconded them, trespassed onto royal grounds, literally ran into Princess Luna, and then got captured by guards again. Now, I was being escorted back to the castle. "HALT! Guards, you are dismissed!" Princess Luna ordered, confusing me and the guards. We had only just entered the palace. "But Princ-" One of the guards spoke back "BUT NOTHING! I wish to be left alone with him!" She declared, slamming a hoof to the ground. Neither of the guards wished to further aggravate the princess, so they dashed off without another protest, leaving me and Luna unaccompanied in the palace lobby. "Um... I can… explain?" I felt uncertain, as I now found myself in a completely uncalled for situation. "Follow me." She commanded without any sentiment to her voice. If there was any doubt before, now I can safely say that I am officially dead. We walked through the castle until we came up to two large, silver doors, both clad in stars and other emblems of the night. "Enter." Luna demanded, opening the doors with her magic. Not wanting to make my situation worse, I obliged. I was frightened by the mere thought of what she could do to me and what could be behind those doors. I gulped as I stepped inside, not sure what to expect, but fearing the worst. As I inched into the room, the first thing I noticed was the lack of blood and torture equipment. The second thing I noted was the giant bed against in the center of the room- it appeared large enough to fit ten ponies! Various bookshelves filled with history, science, magic, and fiction were scattered against the wall to my right. To my left, a fireplace surrounded by sofas and lounge chairs heated the room. Relieved that my head wasn`t going to be mounted on a wall, I tuned to face Luna. I realized that I may have thought too soon, however, when I saw the disgruntled expression on her face. "OH, PRINCESS! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!" I cried. “I JUST NEED TO REACH CELESTIA SO SHE CAN SEND ME BACK TO MY WORLD!" I bawled. To my dismay, Luna strode towards me, a discontent expression remaining on her face. "PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! I`LL DO ANYTHING!!!!" I begged, getting onto my knees and bowing. She looked down on me with disgust as I shut my eyes, dreading the worst. "…Boo" Opening my eyes, I noticed that her expression had drastically changed. She no longer appeared revolted at me; she was instead smirking as she suppressed a laugh at my act. "What the…” Suddenly, Luna fell over onto her back and erupted in a fit of laughter. "Oh, come on, you actually believed I was going to hurt you?!?!" She interrupted her spontaneous laughter. “Am really I that bad of a princess?!” “LUNA, YOU TROLL!" The realization that this had all been an act stung (it took all my willpower to not just walk over and bitch-slap her), but I knew I should have seen this coming from the beginning, and I soon joined her laughter. "Oh, young and gullible Peter, you must learn to have fun!" She advised, sitting up and reposing on her rump. "Wait, how do you know who I am?" I asked, realizing that I had not given her my name. "Twilight has been sending us letters of her adventures on earth. She holds quite a high opinion of you. In fact, it was her who notified me and Celestia of your situation.” Luna stated. “That`s nice to know. Speaking of Celestia, where is she? I need her to send me back to Earth.” "Why are you so eager to leave? You only just arrived in Equestria, and I think you will find it quite charming if you stayed awhile.” "Aside from the fact that the girls are worried sick about me and that I have work tomorrow, I just don't feel comfortable being around ponies that think I`m a monster. In case you haven`t realized, I don`t exactly look like a pony." I responded. “And you didn`t answer my question- Where is Celestia?” I was becoming impatient. “Celestia is at the physician getting her bi-annual checkup.” Luna professed. I was outraged. "DIDN`T SHE KNOW I WAS HERE!!!” I couldn`t believe that the only thing keeping me from returning home was a checkup. "Of course she did. That`s why she put me in charge of making sure you stayed here until her arrival tomorrow morning." "WHAT THE HELL! I can`t be here for another day! They`re probably worried sick as it is, I can`t imagine what the girls would do if I`m not back by today!” I exclaimed. “Do not worry. I may not be able to send you back, but I can still notify Twilight of your arrival. I will send her a letter alerting her of your situation.” Luna alleged, pulling out quill and piece of parchment with her magic. I sighed. “Well, I guess that`s better than nothing. Here, let me write it.” Luna passed me the parchment and quill. Dear Girls, This is Peter. I am at Canterlot castle, and the princesses are going to help get me home tomorrow morning. Sorry that you had to worry yourselves over me. I am fine, and I hope you girls are too. Fluttershy, XOXO. See you soon, Peter Without bothering to wrap it, Luna directed a magic beam at the message. The letter disappeared in a puff of smoke. “Now that that is done, let us have fun! Shall we begin with a castle tour?” ‘You`re kidding, right? Oh, boy, this is going to be a long afternoon…’ I groaned. “Fine…” "Brilliant! Let us start!" She grabbed my hand with her hoof and dashed out of the room before I could protest. "Okay! Let`s begin with the main hall!" "Uggghhh...." --- “…And this statue signifies the power of… love.” She batted her eyelashes at me, and I gulped. We were standing in front of a statue of two very… detailed stone ponies making out. Luckily, my stomach provided a distraction. “rrrrrruuuummmble…” My abdominal area moaned. “Oh, my.” Luna giggled. “You look famished! Let`s get something to eat. To the dining hall!” --- I was hoping that more ponies would be at the eatery. Instead, it was just me and Luna in the center of the room, sitting face-to-face over a candle-lit, flower-laden table. “May I take your order, your highness?” The waiter pony asked. “I`ll just have your fruit salad.” Luna passed him her menu. “And you, sir?” The waiter queried. “Ummm… How about the Penne alla Marinara?” It looked like the fancy version of vegetarian spaghetti. “Very well. I will have your food out soon.” The server left us. Alone. “So, Peter…” Luna smiled. “What do you think of Canterlot Castle?” “It`s very…” I hesitated before responding. “Big.” Luna giggled. “Yes, I guess you could say that.” We uncomfortably sat there for a few more minutes before our food came out. I had not eaten in over a day. As the waiter put my upmarket spaghetti in front of me, I realized just how hungry I was. Not waiting a second longer, I thrust my spoon into the bowl, shoveling the food into my mouth. “Thisf tafts amaznfth!” I exclaimed before taking another huge bite. Exactly ten seconds later, I had cleaned my plate. “That was excellent!” I wiped my hands and mouth before looking up. Luna and the waiter were gawking at me, marveling at my culinary feat. “Would you like some seconds, sir?” The waiter was first to recover. “Ummm… heh, no, thanks.” I passed him my bowl, nervously scratching at the back of my neck. --- An hour of uncomfortable conversation later, Luna and I made our way back to her bedchambers. Exhausted, I flopped onto one of the sofas by the fireplace. To my dismay, Luna collapsed on the one opposite to me. Why couldn’t she just let me be? “Peter, can you do me a favor?” The way she asked it made me uncomfortable. “What do you need?” I cringed, hoping that it wasn`t anything that would make the situation even more awkward. “My back pains me so. Would you be a dear and give it a little rubbing?” She requested shamelessly. Because nothing screams awkward more than a massage. *sigh* “Okay…” I strode over to where Luna was lying. “Where does it hurt?” “Right between the shoulders.” I began to apply pressure to that area, skillfully moving my thumbs in the space between her shoulder blades. “A little to the left… Yes! Right there… Ohhhh, yeeeeessss…” Luna moaned. ‘No! Bad Peter. No thoughts like that.’ “Ooooooohhhhh…” Her moans were beginning to sound more… aroused. ‘Bad Peter! You`re saving yourself for Fluttershy, anyways.’ I was trying to focus completely on the job at hand, but Luna wasn`t helping. “Mmmmmm… yes, right there… mmmmm… Hey, Peter, my wings are feeling stiff. Could you massage those as well?” ‘Wing fooling? Ok, I draw the line here.’ I withdrew my hands from her back, and Luna turned to face me expectantly, waiting for me to stimulate her wings. “I think I worked out the tension. You should be good to go.” I denied her further pleasure, and Luna shot me an irritated glare. “Oh, look at the time! I really should be getting in bed…” “If you`re so tired, then be my guest and hop in.” Luna motioned to her monstrosity of a bed. “Woah, woah, woah!” I protested. “I`m not sleeping in the same bed as you! Surely you have some guest rooms, or an extra bed! Or I could sleep on the couch!” There was no way I was going to share the bed, especially after what happened last night with Cheerilee. “Oh, don`t worry. My bed has held over ten ponies at once! Two won`t be a problem at all.” Luna argued. I ignored that she just said she had slept with ten ponies before. “But…” “No buts! I insist! You won`t find another bed as comfortable as this one in all of Equestria, and I am obliged to take care of my guests to the best of my ability.” “Fine...” I knew I was going to regret it, but I didn`t have any other option that wouldn`t piss the princess off. “Perfect! Here, lie down.” Luna removed the covers from my side of the bed as I sat. However, before I could get comfortable, she began to saunter towards me seductively. “Are you sure you don`t want to feel more of me? I`m sure you would enjoy it very much.” She was now only a few feet away from me, and was eyeing me with bedroom eyes. “Uh, I`m pretty sure I`m good.” I gulped, and tried to scoot away, but the bedpost prevented me. “I`m really tired, and…” I was cut off as Luna pressed her mouth into mine and pinned me to the bed, locking me into a kiss. “Una! Una!” I tried to push her off me, but she persisted with the osculation. She broke away from me a few seconds later.” “Luna! What are you doing?!?! You can`t do this; we just met! And I have a girlfriend; I`m saving myself for her!” I squirmed under her. “Relax, Peter. Just let it happen. She doesn`t have to know anything…” Luna sat up and began to eye my pants. “I`ll tell her! I`ll tell her everything… please don`t do this, Luna!” I pleaded. The princess ignored me and undid the belt to my jeans. She slid them off, followed by my sneakers, shirt, and finally, boxers. Luna started analyzing my naked body with interest. Despite the massage and kiss, my dick was still flat, but the situation was causing me to fight off a boner. “Even flaccid, your cock is three inches long.” Luna admired. “Now let`s see what you really look like…” Luna bent over and gave the tip a gentle lick. A wave of pleasure shot through me. “Urgh… Luna… don`t do this!” ‘Come on, Peter! Don`t give in; think of Fluttershy!’ It was hopeless. Luna gave my penis another lick, this one going from the base to the head. I couldn`t hold it back any longer- my dick began to erect itself, growing to an impressive nine inches. “No…” I mumbled. “Not bad…” Luna muttered admiringly before putting her mouth over the tip. I could feel her hot breath on my dick, and despite what I was telling myself, I wanted her. Abruptly shoving her head down, Luna began to blow me with expertise developed over thousands of years of experience. “Urrk… mmmph…” I moaned, a hot blush coming to my face as she began to suck my dick deeper, lightly brushing the top with her tongue and pressuring the sides with her lips. The stimulation from the wetness of her mouth was driving me crazy, and I gasped when drop of saliva dripped on the cock`s head, slowly siding down to the bottom. I groaned, shutting my eyes tightly. After a few more seconds of light sucking, Luna came up for a breath, panting for air. “Ahhh…” Luna gasped. Before I could recover myself, the princess`s mouth came down on my dick once more, this time going all the way down. “Ah!” The feeling of her deep-throating my entire dick was unbearable. She gagged for a few seconds, but regained her composure and resumed her sucking. “Ah… Ah!” Pressure began building in my cock… I was going to cum! Luna seemed to notice as well. She stopped the blowjob and raised her head, preventing me from reaching my climax. She put on a sly grin, and stood up. “Oh, you`re not finishing yet. I want you to taste me first.” She strut towards me and positioned her posterior to right above my head. She moved her flowing midnight blue tail to the side, exposing me to the pink folds of her marehood. Her pussy was already glistening wet. “Are you ready?” Without waiting for a response, Luna lowered her rear onto my face, getting her moist lips within tongue range of me. Not seeing any other option, I tentatively began to kiss her clitoris, which began dripping in delight. Luna moaned above me, encouraging me on. Deciding that I had nothing to lose, I began to gently lick Luna. I was surprised to find she tasted pleasant, if a little sour. Kind of like… wild blackberries. I started to become slightly more aggressive with my tongue, flicking it in and out of her vagina. I dug my tongue as deep into her as it would go, and slowly dragged my tongue into her clit, emitting a gasp from the mare I was pleasing. I began French-kissing around her button while I moved my hand an inch below it; pressing it against her marehood. Rubbing her pussy and licking her clit simultaneously were driving her wild, and she let out a whinny as I penetrated her with a finger. I prodded her marehood with my fingers; her insides were sopping with her warm, runny nectar, and my fingers stimulating her only made it more sodden and hot. Sliding another finger into her caused her to let out a burst of juice, engulfing my fingers and dripping off my hand into my face. Luna gasped as she orgasmed sooner than expected, and collapsed to the left of me. “Are you sure…” Luna stopped to catch her breath. “That you haven`t done that before?” “I`m very sure. Now, would please let me get some rest?” Even as I licked her juices off my face, I hoped she would let me escape with my virginity. “Of course not!” ‘Of course not.’ “We`re only getting started.” Luna got up and moved towards where my cock wriggled dutifully in the air, waiting for Luna to finish the job. “You know this is rape, right?” I wasn`t fighting her anymore, and as much as I knew I would revel in it, she was still fucking me against my will. “It`s not rape if enjoyed.” Luna straddled my waist, her juices dripping on my dick. For extra lubrication, Luna rubbed my shaft against her drenched pussy, sending shudders of delight up my body. “Brace yourself…” Luna warned as she positioned her opening right above my dick. Using her hoof to guide it into her, Luna began to descend onto my manhood, my tip passing her luscious folds and entering her vagina. “Ah!” She squealed as my dick penetrated her deeper than she intended. “Mmmmm…” My dick was only halfway inside her, but her tightness was slowing her descent. She began rocking back and forth, seeking deeper penetration. I began to gently thrust into her, matching her rhythm. “Oooohhhh… yeeeeeessss…” Luna groaned, her pussy grinding harder against my cock. It was almost all the way in now. However, before I could push the rest of my dick in, she stood up, leaving my penis throbbing in the absence of Luna`s roasting, moist insides. It was short lived, however. Before I could react, Luna slammed her pussy onto my dick as hard as possible. “AHHH!!” She had consumed my entire cock; her tight, wet, smoldering vagina was enveloped around my lengthy manhood. Luna was gasping for breath and her forehead was beaded with sweat, but she was still managing to grind up against my dick; every one of her movements sent a wave of pleasure up my spine. The alicorn was in complete control- her forehooves resting on my chest, Luna compressed her pussy even tighter on her ascents as she bobbed up and down. The heat, the tightness, the wetness, the motions, the gasps emitted from Luna on her descents- all of this was sending me overboard, and I could feel the pressure of an incoming climax coming on. I could feel Luna getting even wetter, and her pace began to increase- she was reaching an orgasmic state as well. Not wanting to go out being ridden like this, I flipped Luna over onto her backside, gaining domination over the princess as I thrust into her with increasing force. Her juices were flowing out rapidly, dripping onto and off my cock as I pounded her. “Luna… I think I`m gonna…” The pleasuring pressure was becoming unbearable. “Peter… I’m going to…” I took that as an OK to release. “AHHHHH!!” We cried in unison, both of us climaxing at the same time. Cum erupted from our sexes, flowing into one another in our moment of bliss. I pulled out of her mid- orgasm, and my seed began to spurt onto Luna`s face. Her juices mixed with my cum began to seep out of the princess`s pussy as it regained its normal form. “Ahhh…” I collapsed next to Luna, and let sleep take me away… --- The feel of lips pursed against mine awoke me from my slumber. I opened my eyes to find the princess of the night snuggled against me (déjà vu much?), her eyes closed as she kissed me. Almost reluctantly, I broke away early. Luna gave me a hurt expression. “I`m sorry Luna, but what happened last night was forced on me. There is nothing like that between us.” I explained. “I`m sorry that we couldn`t make this work, but I have a girl back home.” I wasn`t going to deny that I enjoyed last night, but I still felt loyal to Fluttershy. “Let`s see how a normal friendship works out.” I wrapped my arms around her in a hug. She returned the hug, but I could feel the sadness behind it. I turned her head to face me. “No matter what happens, I`ll always like you. As a friend. There are plenty of other ponies out there that will give their hearts to you. Hell, there are thousands of humans that would envy my position. Just don`t be so… aggressive with your next relationship, okay? Remember, friendship is magic.” Luna hesitated before saying, “Okay. Thank you, Peter. For everything.” “Awwwww…” Our heads shot to the door, where Princess Celestia was standing. “Tia! Erm, uh, This isn`t what it looks like!” Luna frantically jumped off the bed. Celestia laughed. “Calm down, Luna. I`m just here to send our guest back. No need to get so…” Celestia’s gaze fell to the mess of the bed. Or more specifically, the stains on it. Celestia erupted into a fit of laughter. “BWAHAHAHA! I can`t believe you two actually… HAHAHAHA!” She rolled onto her back, clutching her stomach while Luna and I blushed furiously. “Ummm… sister… you were sending him back…” “Right… heh…” Celestia picked herself up, still stifling a giggle. “Just… stand still, Peter. OK?” I stood on my feet. “Okay. I`m ready. Bye, Luna!” “Bye, Peter!” I disappeared in a flash of magic. Co-Author`s Note: Sorry for the wait. I delayed this story for, like, a week. Blame it on the 5-year warranty on my PC. Please put any mistakes you find in the comments! Also, what did you think of my clop scene? Did it make you hard, or was it a cockblock? -ExtraExtrapie Author's Note: We'll be resuming our weekly update after this, hopefully, just also understand this chapter needed to be as good and pleasant as possible for you guys to read. -Loaf > Chapter 16: My little Confessions > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 16: My little Confessions I collapsed on the wooden floor of my living room as the light from the teleportation spell dissipated, leaving me stunned. I was kneeled on the ground, panting for breath, when I heard hoofsteps coming down the stairs. “Peter?” I glanced up, still recovering from the spell. The soft gaze of Fluttershy, in pony form, met my own. “Fluttershy!” I sprang up from my crouched position and ran to meet her. I wrapped my arms around her, embracing her in a loving hug. “Oh, Peter! I was so worried! Are you okay? You look dazed.” Tears began to well up in her eyes. “There, there. I`m fine!” I turned her head up to face me. “I`m home, and everything`s going to be alright.” I leaned in and pressed my lips against hers, locking her in a long, affectionate kiss. ‘Her lips are much softer than Luna`s.’ I thought as we broke away. Unfortunately, the thought only stirred up bad memories. “I love you, Peter.” Her big, blue eyes and caring smile almost made my heart explode. “I love you too, Fluttershy.” I pulled her closer to me so that her head pressed against my chest. However, even as I cuddled Fluttershy, rampant thoughts rampaged through my head. ‘How am I going to live with myself? How long until she finds out? Where did all the furniture go?’ --- “Here`s the last one.” Rainbow Dash gestured to the flatscreen television, which was wedged in between some branches. Twilight, Rainbow and I were retrieving our belongings from Sweet Apple Acres; Twilight had finally mastered the inter-dimensional teleportation spell. “Lift on three. One, two, three!” Dash and I pushed up from under the TV, dislodging it from the tree as we hoisted it down. "Ready?” Twilight asked. We nodded our heads in affirmation. “Brace yourselves…” A purple light engulfed me, the ponies, and electronic appliance before disappearing with a pop. We rematerialized inside my house, staggering from the effects of the spell. After putting the 42-inch HDTV back on its wall mount, I hooked it back up to its power, Direct TV box, and Xbox. Seeing my business complete, I collapsed on the couch. “Well… I guess now we can have some well-deserved rest.” It is rather exhausting to convey furniture trans-dimensionally. “Hey Peter, want to play some Xbox?” Dash grabbed two controllers and tried to pass one to me.. “No thanks, I’m going to head upstairs and take a nap.” I rejected the remote and approached the stairs. “Alright, then. How about you, Twi? You want to play?” She shifted her gaze to Twilight, who replaced me on the couch. “You’re on!” Twilight yanked the controller from Rainbow`s hooves and put on her game face. --- ‘Mmmmm…Oooohhhh… yeeeeeessss…’ I was lying on my bed, facing the ceiling, and I couldn’t stop thinking about that night, something I wished didn`t exist. ‘Peter… I’m going to…’ “Fuck you, Luna!” ‘How could you do this to me? Now, not only have I lost my virginity against my will, but Fluttershy will hate me for cheating on her. I could always just pretend that nothing happened, but chances are that one of princesses would eventually leak it. The best thing I could do is tell her ASAP.’ As if on cue, Fluttershy entered the room. “Hello, Peter.” She greeted me, passionate as ever. What did Fluttershy ever do to deserve this? “Hey, Fluttershy.” She walked over to me, and I gave her a small peck on the cheek, causing her to blush. So. Damn. Cute. But it didn`t feel right anymore, not after what happened. “Hey… you look troubled.” Fluttershy realized, eyeing me with concern. “Is there something you want to talk about?” “Well, actually…” I knew this was my chance to tell her. But not here. “Would you like to go on a promenade through the park? I would like to discuss a few things with you. Alone, if you please.” “You mean, like a date?” She was so innocent, so undeserving… “Yeah, something like that, I guess.” I gave her a faint smile, feeling angst starting to take over- while this may be the best way out, there was no way our relationship would come out of this discussion unscathed. “Wonderful! Let`s go get Twilight to turn me human.” So unaware… --- “I really missed you while you were in Equestria.” Fluttershy told me as we drove towards Memorial Park. “I missed you too. If I ever go again, I hope that you’ll be there with me.” I declared, holding her hand between our seats. “Why do you mean?” She probed, intrigued by my confession. “Well, let’s just say that it was difficult to…” My voice began to trail off as I recalled the events of last night. “Peter? Are you alright?” She snapped me back to my senses. “Huh? Oh, yeah, I’m fine. Don’t worry.” I reassured her. Thankfully, the park was coming into view, providing me with a distraction as I entered a parking lot. “Well… We’re here.” I announced, stopping the car next to some benches. We exited the vehicle, but I didn`t bother locking the car. It was better to leave it open, as there weren`t many people around. Also, if Fluttershy got mad, she could come and stay in the car. I just hope she doesn't get so furious that she runs away somewhere else. --- “Wow,” Fluttershy said. “This place is beautiful.” We were walking through a magnificent flower garden towards the center of the park. “I know, right? I wonder why we never come here.” She was having a good time- my goal exactly. I wanted our last moments before I told her what happened to be perfect. I wanted her to smile one more time. “This is just lovely, isn’t it?” She sighed, sitting down on a nearby bench with a small grin on her face. “It’s even lovelier with you.” I sat down next to her. Looking affectionately into her eyes, I brushed some hair away from her face, revealing her beautiful, sky blue eyes. Why did I have to ruin this? “Thanks, Peter.” She responded, blushing. “I’m glad to be here with you, too.” I brought my hand to her cheek, and moved my fingers down to her chin. “I love you, Fluttershy. And nothing that happens will ever change that.” I moved my mouth to hers, and we embraced into a long, passionate kiss. Breaking away, I began to tear up. “I`m so sorry I have to put you through this.” “Through what? What are you talking about, Peter?” Fluttershy put on the most innocent, adorable face. “Fluttershy?” I gulped- this was the moment of truth. “Yes, Peter?” “There is something I want to tell you.” “What is it?” “It’s about what happened while I was in Equestria. Well, when I arrived in Ponyville…” I recalled what happened up to when I ran into Cheerilee. “… and then, while I was rounding the building, I bumped into somepony.” “Who was it?” Fluttershy asked. “Cheerilee. I collided into her while she was leaving her house, and I kind of knocked her out. So, I did what anyone would have done- I took her inside her house and stayed next to her until she woke up.” I finished explaining. “That’s nice of you.” She complimented, still smiling. “Well, after she regained consciousness, she sort of freaked out, which was kind of expected. I managed to calm her by telling her I was friends with you girls. By this time, it was already late, and she offered me to sleep at her place, considering that I had no other place to stay at.” “That`s nice of her. By the way, Twilight and Applejack said that you were welcome to stay at the library or farm.” Fluttershy revealed. “Well, that would’ve been nice to know. Anyways, I had to sleep in the same bed as her, since she had no other place for me to sleep. Well, in her sleep, she ended up hugging me throughout the night…” “I’m sure it was an accident, right?” She pursed her lips at my last comment. “It was, it was… Well, in the morning, she was nice enough to buy me a ticket to Canterlot. Unfortunately, since I didn’t have anything to offer at the time, I asked her what she wanted in return.” “What did she want?” I hoped Fluttershy didn`t mind. “She asked me if she could come here sometime, as I was telling her about this world. I told her she was welcome here anytime she was available and Twilight could send her.” “Well, that`s no problem,” She smiled. “Cheerilee is welcome at our place anytime.” I gave a sigh of relief, and then proceed to fill her in on what happened up to after my dinner with Luna. “… and then, when we got back to her room…” This was the part I had been dreading. “She made me…S-she made me give her a massage…” “Well, that`s not so bad.” But then Fluttershy noticed my shaking hands and the perspiration that beaded my forehead. “Peter, what are you getting at?” “After the massage… she wanted me to wing-fool her, and I said no. But she wouldn`t let me go… She made me lie down on her bed, and then she…” Just say it, you asshole! “Fluttershy, what I am about to admit is the most shameful action I have ever done in my life.” I took a deep breath. “Fluttershy… I was raped by Luna.” I finally confessed. “What!?!” “Luna and I… had sex.” Fluttershy was staring at me with saddened eyes and an angry expression. “But the thing is… She forced me to do it; it was rape!” I began to feel tears running down my eyes. “You need to know that I tried to resist. I tried as hard as I could...” SLAP I felt a sharp pain erupt from my cheek. “How could you?” Fluttershy bawled at me. “No, you don`t-” “I don’t want to hear it, you… YOU ASSHOLE!” “Fluttershy… Please just…listen…” But it was too late. She leaped off the bench and glared at me, tears streaming from her eyes. “No! It’s OVER! As soon as we get home, I’m leaving.” --- I remained on the bench for a few minutes after Fluttershy had stormed off towards the car. Realizing that my delay would only enrage her more, I sluggishly stood up and began heading towards the parking lot. Despite the fact that I had ruined our relationship for the time being, I felt better, if only slightly, after confessing to Fluttershy. Suddenly, I felt something sharp graze the back of my neck. “Give me your money, kid. Or this knife goes through your neck.” A gruff voice ordered. I was being mugged- the last thing I would tolerate at that moment. “Fuck you!” Before my assailant could react, I ducked my head and crouched down, spinning around to deal a blow to his face. I attempted to throw a powerful uppercut at him, but he swiftly dodged it and swiped at me with his switchblade. I tried to avoid it, but was too slow. A shallow cut was slashed from my chest to stomach, blood spurting from the wound. “SHIT!” Pain erupted from the laceration, but he wasn`t done yet. Before I could recover, the knife was thrust into my gut, leaving a deep and serious wound. “Stupid kid! Just give me your stuff!” My aggressor tried to get me under his knifepoint again. “You`re not taking anything from me!” Swatting his armed hand away, I delivered a swift kick to his genitals, and the mugger dropped to his knees with a grunt. While he was demobilized, I turned to run, but wasn`t fast enough. “AAAAUUUUGGGGHHH!!” I cried in agony as I was stabbed once again, this time in the lower back. However, I refused to let up as I continued running towards my car, leaving the robber kneeling on the ground. “Shitshitshit.” I swore while sprinting with all my available strength. ‘How am I going to hide this?’ I thought, placing a hand on the gash in my gut. My car was coming into view, and I could see Fluttershy impatiently waiting for me in the passenger seat. “Took you long enough.” She huffed, not even bothering to look at me as I entered and started the car. “Sorry…” I choked out. The pain was excruciating, but I had to pull it together until we were home. I could not find any possible outcome for the matter of Fluttershy discovering that I had been attacked at the park. The next fifteen minutes sent in that car were the most agonizing moments of my life. Lucky for me, Fluttershy hadn`t even glanced my way since I had entered the car, and didn`t realize anything was wrong. By the time we were home, I was feeling increasingly nauseous, and the pain in my wounds was growing. Black smudges were beginning to dot my vision. ‘Finally… we`re here.’ I thought, parking the car with relief. Fluttershy wasted no time in getting off as soon as possible and slamming the door shut. As soon as I heard her enter the house, I whipped out my phone, which was drenched in blood by now, and called 911. “911, what`s the emergency?” The operator asked. “I need… an ambulance…” “What is your location and emergency?” She asked. “I’m outside my house in my car on 4026 West Field Street. I was stabbed 3 times, and am bleeding a lot.” I informed her. “We have an ambulance en route to your location. Don’t move, and apply pressure to the wounds. To stop the bleeding.” “Thank you…” I mumbled, hanging up. I opened my door and let myself collapse on the pavement. “Come on Peter…Stay…Stay alive…” I muttered, gasping for breath. “Do it…For her…” Author's Note: Hello guys! Like always leave any corrections in the comments, also this chapter was split into two so the next one is already written, it just needs some editing and it's ready. > Chapter 17: Hero's Death > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 17: Hero's Death Sorry for taking this down for a day- we had some trouble with putting Peter into cardiac arrest, so we made some modifications. How do you like aortic ruptures? “…And then he told me that he had sex with Luna.” Fluttershy finished recalling what Peter had recently told her. “HE SAID WHAT!?!” Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity all cried in unison. “He said Luna raped him.” Rarity fainted, and the room entered a deep silence. “Well… hun`,” Applejack was the first to speak. “There`s a big dif`rence `tween sex `n rape. If he was tellin` the truth…” Applejack trailed off. “Peter wouldn`t lie to me.” Fluttershy replied sternly. “I… I can`t believe this.” Twilight was dumbfounded. “Princess Luna wouldn`t do that to anypony. But… why would Peter lie about something like that? I think that maybe he just made up the part about her forcing him into it.” “OOOOHH! OOOOHH! I know what we should do!” Pinkie exclaimed. “We should TOTALLY have the Princess come over and tell us all about what happened! There could be punch, cake, and-“ “Or we could just send Princess Celestia a letter.” Twilight interrupted. “Here, let me write one asking Princess Luna to explain EXACTLY what happened.” She took a piece of paper and a pen from the kitchen and began scribbling down a message. While Twilight was writing the letter, Dash asked, “Hey, where is Peter, anyways?” Her expression darkened. “I want to give him a piece of my mind…” “I-I guess he`s still outside in the car.” Fluttershy replied meekly. “Well, what `r we wait`n for? Let`s go an` talk to `im!” Applejack, with Rainbow and Pinkie in close pursuit, ran for the front door, only to be stopped in their tracks when Applejack abruptly halted. “What`s your deal, Applejack?” Rainbow demanded. “There`s an ambulance next t` Peter’s car.” She stated, pointing in the direction of the car. “What’s going on?” Fluttershy squeezed by Applejack and darted towards the paramedics. Right as she was going to reach them, they lifted a stretcher where Peter was hooked up to an oxygen tank. “W-WHAT HAPPENED!?!” Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Fluttershy all cried in unison. Rarity, who had just woken up, fainted again. Twilight popped her head out the window and gasped at the scene. “We got a call that this wounded individual was located here. It appears that he was stabbed multiple times, and has to be taken to the ER.” One of the paramedics explained to Fluttershy. “Excuse me, but are you related to him?” The driver asked. “I-I’m his…ummm… girlfriend…” She chewed on the words. “Well, we need to get to the hospital ASAP. Feel free to trail us.” He flicked a switch, and the sirens on the ambulance began to shriek before they pulled away towards the hospital, leaving the girls dumbfounded in their dust. “But I can`t… drive” Fluttershy whispered. “Ah`m gonna call Peter`s parents” Applejack proclaimed. “They c`n pick us up an` take us to th` hospital.” She hurried into the house to get the phone. “Ummm… Let me make a few changes to this letter…” Twilight alleged before adding a PS to the bottom. Shooting a beam of magic at it, she sent the note away in a puff of smoke. --- Dear Princess Celestia, I am writing on the behalf of all of the Elements of Harmony. We have an issue between Peter and Fluttershy, who are an item. Fluttershy claims that during the time Peter spent in Equestria (more specifically, during the night he spent with your sister), he was forced to have sexual intercourse with her. Fluttershy is especially upset over the matter. We know that neither Peter nor Princess Luna would do these things, but we are seeking you and your sister's help on the matter, as well as Princess Luna's clarification on the accusations. Hopefully, we can find a solution before any of this gets out of hand. Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle. PS- we just found Peter severely, maybe fatally, injured with 3 stab wounds. He is being taken to the hospital. “LUNA!!!” Celestia`s voice rang through Canterlot Castle. “GET OVER HERE” “What is it, sister?” Luna responded, galloping into her sibling’s bedchambers. “Look what you`ve done!” Celestia wailed, telekinetically shoving the letter into Luna`s face. “It`s from Twilight and her friends.” The sun goddess glared at her sister. Luna gulped, and began reading, her eyes growing wider the more she perused. At the PS, Luna gasped, and her eyes began to moisten. “I… I didn`t… how…” Luna fumbled with her words. "Due to your selfishness and stupidity, not only have you raped someone with a girlfriend, but that same person ended up hurt, most likely because you couldn't control yourself! Not to mention that the Elements of Harmony are heartbroken by your actions!" "I didn't think th-" "You're right, Luna!" Celestia raged, cutting her sister off. "You didn't think! For all we know, Peter is dying as we speak, because of you!” Tears welled in Luna's eyes. "But..." She couldn't take it anymore. With a sob, Luna dashed off to her bedchambers. --- The Mane 6, accompanied by Peter`s mom, entered the ER of the hospital. Rarity faints at the sight of the moaning patients, but everyone else pushes onwards towards the front desk. “Where`s my son?!?!” Peter`s mother demands to the receptionist. “Name?” “Peter! Peter Anderson!” “He`s in operation room 723 down that hallway.” The receptionist gestured to the right. "Thank you!" The group dashed towards the said hallway. “How did he get stabbed?” Peter's mom asked to the ponies as they ran through the hospital. “We don’t know. Fluttershy won`t tell us anything.” Dash answered. The group finally made it to Peter's room. A nurse was standing outside the door. “That's my son!” Peter`s mom exclaimed to her. “Please, let me see him!” “Umm... sure. He should be stabilized. Go ahead in.” The nurse replied. Peter’s mom entered the operation room. --- Peter`s mom exited the room with a ghostly expression. “Fluttershy, you can go in now.” Fluttershy’s head perked up as she was addressed. “I… I don’t think… he would like to see me…” She panted. “Look, Fluttershy. I want to know what happened, but right now, if there`s something that needs to be said, now`s your chance to say it.” Twilight said, and then gave her an assuring pat on her back. “Do you think he’ll listen?” Fluttershy asked her friend. “I’m sure he will.” Twilight said, giving her a quick hug. “Well then… Here I go.” Fluttershy announced, standing up and heading towards the room. --- “Peter?” Fluttershy called out as she entered. The room was silent, save for the various medical machines. “F-Fluttershy?” I whispered weakly, and looked up to see her. “Ummm… Hi, Peter.” Fluttershy greeted with her head lowered. I only nodded in respnce “So, are you… going back home soon?” Her teary eyes glinted with hope, and it melted my heart. “Come here.” I instructed, pointing towards the chair next to me. “I… need to tell you something.” “Ummm… me too.” She confessed.“Peter… I`m sorry. I shouldn’t have said those things, nor reacted the way I did.” Her gaze darted to the floor. “It`s okay… this was all caused by me, anyway. You only reacted normally, and I should have expected it. Nevertheless, I forgive you.” My speech was interrupted by a fit of coughing. “There`s something you need to know...” I stated weakly. “What is it?” She uncertainly inquired. “There is an extremely low chance of me surviving. Apparently, I got stabbed in a major blood vein and have an abdominal aortic aneurism. if I don’t get a liver transplant, it's a matter of a day…” Right after those words left my mouth, she started crying. “This can’t be! There has to be someone!” She said, burying her face in my chest. I tried to calm her down. “There`s a long waiting list for one of my blood type, and they have to find a good match, otherwise it won’t work.” I told her, wiping off some tears from her eyes. “Peter I’m so sorry…” She apologized, then resumed her crying. “Don’t say that; none of knew this would happen.” I told her. “W-What do you mean?” “No one knew from the beginning that you would be sent here, and we didn’t know why, nor could we know how to feel about each other until we had that one fight. You should’ve never come here in the first place- it’s just too dangerous for a pony.” I explained. “But… what about all those happy moments we had together?” She asked, holding me hard between her hands as if that would prevent losing me. “I will always treasure them in my heart, even if I di-… Just, no matter what happens, know that I always loved and will love you.” I made sure she was looking at me when I said that- it was true, and came from very deep in my heart. “I love you too…” She said before kissing me. I will miss this if I do end up dying. “Fluttershy… if I die, I want you and the girls to go back to Equestria and never come back to this world. Understand?” I pleaded. “But there's still a chance!” She was about to burst into tears again. “Hardly. Why lie; do you see that machine?” I gestured towards the heart monitor. “That thing shows my heartbeats. It`s slowing down as we speak. There isn`t a chance anymore…” This time, it was me who started crying, I finally had the girl that was just right, and I was about to lose her. “I won’t let you go…” She said, grasping me harder. I couldn’t take it, but I guess as a cartoon character of a show for little girls, death is something way out of the ordinary. The room entered a deep silence that was interrupted by only the faint sniffles Fluttershy made as she cried onto my chest. Without warning, she began to sing. “You think I’m pretty… without any make-up on…” “Before you met me… I was alright…. But things were kind of heavy; you brought me to life…” I joined her. “Let’s go all the way tonight… No regrets, just love… We can dance until we die… You and I… will be young forever.” We both sang before kissing one last time. It was a good way to go out- kissing my girl while cuddling in bed. As our lips parted, my vision started to fade away. Right before I blacked out, I think I heard a beeping noise… --- The princess of the night strode out of her bedchambers, and headed towards her sister's. Entering her sister's room, Luna regained her posture and sucked back her tears. Addressing Celestia, Luna proclaimed, "You're right. This is my fault." She paused. "And now, I'm going to fix it. Tia, I'm going to Earth." ExtraExtrapie's Notes: I think this chapter is sub-par (especially with the Peter-Shy dialogue), but y`all kept harassing poor Loaf to pump this out. Sorry if this is of lower quality than normal- I didn`t spend as much time as usual on it. Please put any mistakes you see in the comments. Also, another cliffhanger? What is this, Anthropology? Thank you for all of your helpful comments and critique. Loaf's Note: I keep reading erotic and not aortic! > Chapter 18: Flatline > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for any grammatical errors you may encounter Chapter 18: Flatline “NURSE! Get the defibrillator in here, ASAP!” “Quick, give him 50cc’s of epinephrine!” The doctor told another nurse while they came back with the defibrillator. “Here doctor, it’s ready.” The nurse had returned, handing over the defibrillator to the doctor. “CLEAR!” He announced before giving quickly electroshocking Peter’s bare chest. “It’s not working!” He said, discharging again onto his chest. “Come on!” Finally at the third discharge they managed to get a pulse again, a weak one so they needed to act fast. “Clear the operation room, this kid need serious an immediate operation!” They quickly rushed his bed out and toward the operation room, Fluttershy, the girls and Peter’s family were all outside when they saw him being taken out. They asked one of the nurses what was going on. Fluttershy nearly collapsed onto the ground if it weren’t for Peter’s brother, John who managed to grab her, Rarity fainted and everybody simply gasped and started to tear from the drastic news. They said they were going to try and heal the ruptured vein as much as they could so he could have a little more time to survive for a kidney transfer but they warned them that the odds of the operation were very low. “Okay, what are we dealing with?” The doctor asked before starting any big incisions. “An internal hemorrhage and a abdominal aortic aneurism.” “Okay people we’ve got to work fast, it’s a matter of time and there is a lot of bleeding that needs to be done.” The doctors and nurses started to maneuver around Peter’ dying body. It only takes one small error for him to seize so the doctors not only had a certain time limit but as well as chary when making any cuts or stitching, but time was starting to run out, ten minutes into operation and Peter’s heart was starting to slow down, his heartbeats becoming less frequent --- “Fluttershy calm down” John tried to comfort her but was having a rather hard time, she was squirming and moving a lot trying to break free. “NO! I WON’T! Peter’s dying and I can’t do anything!” She said ceasing her movements, John let her go. “I think you should take her home.” Twilight told him. “What about you girls?” She asked her, how come they were the only one that had to stay? “Incase…” She got closer and lowered her voice. “Incase Peter… you know, we’re going to need some time to think of how to tell her.” She told him, and backed away. “Ok… I’ll stay with her, call me if anything happens.” John said, he then turned around and got Fluttershy off the ground. “Come on Fluttershy; let’s take you home, you’ve had a rough day.” She put up a little bit of resistance. “But… what about Peter?” She said trying to break free again. “Don’t worry, we’ll call you incase anything happens.” Peter’s mom said, giving her a reassuring pat on her back, she hesitated for a moment but after that she, John and the other girls were heading out the hospital. --- “Luna, what are you planning to do?” Celestia questioned her sister. “I plan to set things straight. I’m going to clean up our names.” She said proudly. “Just pray that you get to him on time.” Celestia answered, she knew her sister was doing the right thing. “Oh, and one more thing, Luna, sorry for lashing at you.” “Don’t worry sister, I forgive you.” Luna said turning around to look at her sister. “Understand that the only reason I did it was for to get you to do something about it.” Celestia confessed. Luna hesitated for a second, thinking whether or not if her sister wouldn’t have acted that way, would she have done something. “Wish me luck.” --- “Scalpel.” The doctor said, one of the nurses immediately handed it to him. “Dear god, this is taking longer than expected and the bleeding hasn’t stopped.” The nurse on the other side wiped sweat of his head. “How much more do you time is this going to ta-“The doctor was cut off by the sound everyone was dreading, it was the horrible sound of a long nonstop beep. “OH GOD NO!” The doctor quickly put the scalpel down and commanded everybody to do something. “Epinephrine! Give him epinephrine!” In a heartbeat one of the nurses was injecting Peter but that didn’t help. “We have to reanimate him, he can’t die on us!” They started applying CPR on his upper chest, straight on the heart. “Come on little fella!” *Beeeeeeep* Everybody looked at each other; there was nothing left for them to do. He was gone. “Time of death…” The doctor turned to look at a big LED clock that hung above the door. “12:34 am” He finished saying. “I guess… We have to break the news.” --- “Um… Excuse me.” Luna said walking up to a couple waiting outside an operating room. “Hi, what can we do for you, doctor?” Peter’s dad said, oblivious to the fact that it was another character from Peter’s favorite show. “Yes, umm… Do you by any chance know the room a certain Peter Anderson is being treated at?” She wasn’t sure whether or not the hospital’s worked the same way here like in Equestria. “He’s being operated on right now.” Peter’s dad answered in confusion pointing towards the operation room where Peter was, not knowing if she was supposed to be helping out the other doctor. “HE IS? I mean… He is, oh ok then I guess I better hurry up and go help out. Um… Thank you.” She said rushing off; she was praying she was on time. “What a strange looking doctor.” Peter’s mom said. -- “Excuse me for being late!” Luna said walking into the room before noticing Peter’s lifeless body on the operation table. “W- what happened?” She said in shock “Excuse me but who are you” One of the nurses asked. “I’m a doctor of course, can’t you see?” She signaled herself. “I’ve never seen you before.” The doctor answered. “Well I’m new.” “Well I don’t care, you have to get out of here, this patient just died and we can’t have you in here.” The doctor said getting closer to her to escort her outside. “No, wait, I can bring him back!” She said, horrified inside of the fact that she was late. “How? He’s been dead for the last 5 minutes, plus one of the nurses has already been dispatched to tell his parents.” “No, I’m serious! All I have to do is use my magic!” She said trying her best to not be thrown out of the room. “Magic? Okay now you really have to leave” The doctor was hearing nonsense coming from this supposed ‘doctor’ “Please! Just… Let me try!” She said pushing the doctor aside and transforming back into an alicorn, everybody was left mouth opened when they saw the human turn into a flying-unicorn- equine creature. “What in the name of god?” A nurse said in a whisper. “W-wha- What are you?” The doctor questioned in a horrified. “Please, I need everybody to leave the room, I need to concentrate all I can if I want this spell to work. It took all the nurses and the doctor a few moments to compile Luna’s request and slowly one on one went leaving the room. “Please convince everyone not to tell anybody about me.” Luna plead to the last nurse that was leaving. “O-okay.” He said before leaving. “Hang on Peter, please do.” Luna said, her horn starting to light up as she began concentrating on a spell she had studied before coming to this world. --- “I’m very sorry for Mrs. Anderson, we’ll tell Fluttershy.” Twilight said, hanging the phone, she was fighting off tears over the news. “What did they say?” Pinkie asked, a gloomy expression on her face. “He… passed away…” Pinkie’s hair instantly deflated after hearing the news, hers eyes glistening. “I guess we have to tell her now.” Both Twilight and Pinkie headed upstairs where John and the other girls where comforting Fluttershy. “Who was it?” John asked, but by the look on their faces he knew what it was. “It was your parents… I think you might want to go with them, we’ll take care of her.” Twilight told him, he two had watery eyes now. “Yeah, it’s probably for the best.” John left the room, leaving the girls up to the toughest task they’ve had in a while. “Sugercube?” Applejack said, giving her a light touch on her shoulder, Fluttershy simply sat up in place a move they weren’t expecting. “You okay darling?” Rarity asked. “Let’s… go home.” Fluttershy mumbled, her face covered completely by her face. “What?” Everybody said in unison. “Let’s go back to Equestria, to Ponyville.” She said again with no emotion. “But, but what about Peter? Wouldn’t you prefer to at least wait until after the funeral?” Rainbow said, trying to reason with her. “No.” “What ‘bout the house?” Applejack asked. “And all y’all belongings?” “Unless you girls want to take anything, his family will take care of it.” “Fluttershy, are you sure about this?” Twilight asked her. “It’s what he would’ve wanted…” She replied to her friend “How do you know?” Pinkie finally spoke up, still in her gloomy state. “He told me, before I left his room.” All of them vacillated for a minute, unsure of what to do. They weren’t sure if they wanted to leave just yet or if they should. “Well Fluttershy, if that’s what you want, than let’s go home.” Twilight told her, all the girls simply nodded except for Fluttershy and within a few seconds they were all engulfed by a white light before leaving this world forever. -- Luna had cast the spell twice already but this time she used all her willpower to make the effect as strong as possible. “Come on Peter, you can’t die, not like this, not because of me.” She said before casting the spell for the third time, she collapsed next to the table, crying for failing, for failing her sister and for causing all this in the first place. “Forgive me Peter.” She said between hey cries. “What?” Luna instantly shifted her head towards the source, it came from the table, and she quickly stood up to see what it was. “Luna?” I asked rubbing my eyes, before noticing I had tubes connected on my arms. “Peter! You’re alright!” She jumped on me hugging me tightly. “What? What’s going on?” I said, dumbfounded by the whole situation. “You were dead but I brought you back, Peter I’m so sorry!” She said it very quickly not loosening her grip. “Wait, what?!?” I said not believing what I was hearing. “Yes, I came here because Twilight sent my sister a letter about your state, I came as fast as I could.” She seemed really relieved but she said I was dead. “Wait… So I did die?!?” I knew I blacked out but not that I died. “I guess so, but now you’re okay! Look even the cuts they made have healed!” She said pointing at my abdomen. “So you mean to tell me, I was dead just a few seconds ago?” I said sitting up on the table. “Well, you’ve been dead for the last five minutes or so.” She told me, holy crap that is something scary to hear. “Do my parents know?” I asked her. “I’m not sure.” She said smiling at the fact that I was alive. “Well I have to go see them.” I said hopping of the table. “Wait, how did you get through here without being noticed?” “Oh everybody that was in here saw me, they seemed surprised for some reason.” She said like if it wasn't a bad thing. “What now?!?” I said, stopping in my tracks and turning around to face her. “What? What’s wrong?” She asked me. “I sure hope you can erase people’s memory.” I told her with a stern expression. “Why?” “Luna, other people here can’t know of your existence, please tell me you can erase their memory up to the point where I died.” I told her trying to be sound as firm as possible. “Of course, no problem.” That was some good news, not that coming back from the death were nothing short from amazing but I’m glad she can do that kind of stuff. “Alright, thank you.” We walked out of the room where we were instantly met with a crowd of still amazed doctors and nurses. “Now would be a good time, but first turn into a human.” I told her. “Oh yeah, don’t worry, I got this.” She transformed into a human with a doctor looking uniform. “Sorry people, but you can’t tell anyone about me.” The room was soon engulfed by a white light and everyone was still there but they seemed to be lost. “What were we doing again?” One of the nurses asked. “I think you were about to let me go.” I told them. “We were?” The doctor asked scratching his head. “Yeah, but don’t worry, I’ll escort him to fill out the required documentation” Luna said, we both smiled mischievously as we left towards the waiting room. “P-Peter?” My mom mumbled as we walked out of the doors from the operation room. “Hi, mom.” I said trying to act normal. “What in god’s name?” My dad said, they couldn’t believe their eyes. “We’re already starting to hallucinate.” “But how, they told us you died?” John said, he had arrived just a few minutes ago. “Well, I owe it all to Luna.” I said pointing at her, she simply smiled. “Luna? Luna as in Princess Luna?” My brother questioned, my parents turned around to look at him funny. “The one and only.” She answered with a royal like voice. “Thank god!” My mom said about to burst into tears again as she hugged me. “Don’t worry mom, I’m fine, I promise I won’t take any dumb decisions anymore.” I told her returning the embrace. “Wait, so do we have to wait a few days for you to check out?” My dad asked. “Don’t worry, I can take care of that.” Luna answered with a sly smile on her face. -- “Are you sure you don’t want one of us to stay?” My mom asked me, as they dropped me and Luna off at my house, it’s amazing how fast I recovered, it’s like it didn’t even happen. “Don’t worry mom, I’ll be fine, Luna will spend the night with me, plus the girls are here so I’ll be fine.” I assured her. “Well… Okay, just call us if anything happens.” She was really worried. “Thanks again Princess, for saving our son, we owe you.” My dad said from the back seat. “Please, call me Luna.” She said smiling. “Okay ma’am.” After that they drove off, leaving me and Luna heading towards the front door of my house. “Mind If I turn back to a pony now?” she asked me as I fumbled around my pockets to find my house keys. “Sure, I don’t mind.” I opened the door to the house and we both entered. “HELLO! ANYONE HOME!” I called out with a smile. “Make yourself at home.” I told Luna while I waited for a response from the girls. “I think I’ll go lay down, I’m a bit tired.” She said, yawning and heading towards the living room. I didn't hear any response from the girls, that’s strange; they’re supposed to be here. “Twilight? Fluttershy? Dashie?” I called out heading up stairs; I walked directly towards my room. When I opened the door I was met with silence and emptiness. “Is anypony here?” I asked looking around; I then noticed the pillow in Fluttershy’s bed. It was damp, like if somebody had been crying on it… “Aw crap.” I said out loud remembering what I had told her before I passed out. I had told her that if I died I wanted them to go back to Equestria and never comeback, they most likely got the news and Fluttershy told them to leave. “Luna!” I yelled running towards the stairs and heading down as quickly as possible. “Luna!” I said entering the living room; I saw her mane dangling from the end of the side of the couch. “Luna, you've got to take me to Ponyville rig-“I stopped when I finally reached her and realized she was asleep. Now I had to decide whether I waited until morning to go to Ponyville or wake Luna and go there now. Not wanting to disturb her I decided to wait, it may not be the best option but after all the magic Luna used today she deserves a good rest. I went and placed a blanket on Luna and headed outside, I wasn't tired but I could use a good walk. I stopped in front of my car and took a quick peek inside. There were some blood stains on the driver seat. I drove it inside the garage and tried to clean them, I managed to get a good amount of the stain of and left it at that. The rest of the night went pretty much the same; I walked around the house waiting for morning to see my little pony again. Hours passed by slowly and I finally fell asleep. “Peter…” “Peter…” “Five more minutes…” I mumbled. “Peter, wake up. I have to leave already.” Luna said tugging at my shoulder, I immediately woke up. “Thank god you woke me up.” I told her, lifting myself out of bed. “And why would that be?” She asked me. “I need to go with you to Equestria.” I know she won’t mind but she might ask why. “What for?” “I need to go see the girls, especially Fluttershy.” I answered her. “Wait so they aren't here?” She asked me, I guess she hadn't realized but she had fallen asleep rather quickly last night. “No, and they think I’m dead so I have to get to Ponyville.” “Well I have no problem with that. Are you ready to leave?” She asked me probably wondering if I was going to change or anything, probably a good idea since I was wearing the shirt that I had been stabbed with. “Let me just change and I’ll be ready.” I told her getting up from my bed. Hopefully she knew where Fluttershy lives because I have no idea. -- We appeared in the outskirts of Ponyville, it was just about passed noon and all the ponies could be seen around the town doing their business. “Luna, do you know where Fluttershy lives?” I had to make sure she knew, she went to her house in the fourth episode of season 2 so she should know hopefully. “I do remember vaguely.” She answered; we were walking down a dirt road leading towards Ponyville. “Well if you don’t, we could just go visit Twilight or Pinkie or Rarity.” We continued to walk down the road, talking about little things like the weather or the scenery. “Where to now?” We were standing in front of city hall, I was getting some strange looks from the ponies walking around but none of them really overreacted, I guess they got used to it after Discord attacked. “I can’t remember which way it was.” She said biting the bottom of her lip trying to remember. “Then let’s ask somepony.” I said walking up to Sweetie Belle, she and Scootaloo were passing by and at such a good timing. “Hey girls.” I said to get their attention. “Um… Hi?” Scootaloo answered freaked out a bit. “Wait a second… Are you Peter?” Sweetie asked me, thank god she probably knew who I was. “Yes, I guess you sister told you about me?” I said smiling a bit, this is good progress. “She came back last night; she seemed sad and told me that you had died.” She said a bit confused. “Shit… She said that, well anyways, I need to know where Fluttershy lives.” They knew, they had stayed and gone to her cottage on multiple occasions. “Yeah!” She gave me the instructions and I thanked them once they finished telling me and headed back to where Luna was still waiting, she was waving at some ponies that were passing by. “Okay I know where she lives now, we should get going.” She turned around and got up on all four of her legs, it was a bit difficult to get around the town, we even stopped a few times to get help until finally we were walking up the little road that led to Fluttershy’s house. “Finally, we made it.” “Yup.” She said, her voice sounded sad for some reason. “Well I guess you have somepony to talk to, I have to be heading back to Canterlot, and my sister must be worried.” She was about to fly off but I just barely managed to grab her. “Wait, Luna.” I said, I wasn't quite sure what I was doing and was amazed when I reached in and hugged her, she too seemed surprised but returned the embrace. “Thank you Luna, you saved my life.” I said holding her tight. “If there is any way I can repay you just let me know.” I offered her. “There is one thing I want…” She said, blushing a bit. “Anything, just name it.” After saying that, she quickly pursed her lips against mine, her eyes were closed shut but I could see tears streaming out of them, I now knew she had strong feelings towards me but she also knew she couldn’t be with me for obvious reasons. After a minute she broke the kiss, her eyes were a bit red and tears still falling from her face. “Sorry…”She apologized, wiping a tear of her face. “Don’t worry. This will be out secret, I promise. You’re welcome in my house any time.” That made her smile and soon she flew away towards Canterlot. I let out a sigh as I headed towards the cottage door. I have no idea how she was going to take, hell I didn’t even know if she was here. I knocked three times on the front door. There was no response, I took a quick peek through one of the windows, there wasn’t anything but animals running around. “Fluttershy!” I yelled out. She didn't respond. I went to the back of the house only to be greeted with more animals. I looked through the back windows. “Fluttershy?” I said again. I was starting to worry. I moved a few bags and boxes and was able to climb to the roof; I looked through the one of the windows it led to the bathroom. I moved to another one that was close to it. It looked like the one Rainbow Dash has entered through once in season two and again in season three, meaning this one was her bedroom window. “Where could she be?” I said sitting down for a bit, facing the woods behind her house. I managed to see a lake in the distance, barely visible through all the trees. I guess that was my next choice, I wasn’t leaving until I find her. As I made my way through the woods I walked into a meadow area I hadn’t seen from the roof, there was a low noise coming from my left but the only thing there was a big tree. I headed towards it to see what the noise could be. The scene in front of me lit my heart up, Fluttershy had her face buried between her front hooves and I could hear her crying. I went to lie down next to her, I thought she would have noticed me but she didn’t. I laid next to her looking at her, a smile plastered on my face. I reached out and wrapped my arms around her. She flinched and looked up rapidly. When she was it was me she only continued crying but she rested her head on my chest. I started to shed a few tears of joy. “Don’t worry, everything is okay.” I said running my hand up and down her back. Minutes passed, she slowly started to stop crying, all this while I sat against the tree with her in between my hands. The sun was starting to set and Fluttershy seemed to start getting tired. “Want to go inside?” I asked her, she nodded and I moved my hands around so I could be able to carry her, she wasn’t really heavy so I had no problem. “How?” She asked as we made our way through the trees, I was caught off guard by her question since she hadn’t really said anything. “Luna.” I answered boldly. “She came in and saved my life with some spell.” “Peter…” She said quietly. “You don’t have to say anything, I’m okay and I’m here.” I said looking at her with a smile on my face. “But… I want to apologize for leaving.” She said apologetically. “Fluttershy, don’t worry. You only did what I asked you to do.” I didn’t mind that at all. “But you didn't die and we still left.” She sounded like she was going to cry again. “I did die, but I was revived by Luna. Something that I didn't know would happen. You have nothing to be sorry about.” She stayed silent for moment and then she reached up and gave me a peck on my cheek. ” We had arrived at her house, I set her down so she could open the back door and we both entered. She headed upstairs and I followed her the whole time. We both entered her bedroom and she was the first to lie down. I took a bit longer since I had to take my shoes and shirt off. I missed seeing her in pony form. Human or pony form, she equally looked beautiful. I gave her a goodnight kiss and she returned it, it lasted more than it should of but I had no problem with that. I was happy of being alive, in Ponyville and the most important thing was that I had her by my side. -- The next morning started out great. We woke up bright and early and with a kiss I might add. I helped her out with the breakfast. I also helped her out with her animals before we both remembered that the other girls didn’t know I was alive and that I was here. We headed straight into town, she said that Applejack was most likely selling apples, Rarity’s boutique was close as well as Sugercube corner and that Rainbow Dash was most likely on weather patrol today near Applejack. We headed out the front door and towards Ponyville. Sure enough all the girls were where Fluttershy had said they would be, each one greeted me the same way, happy and amazed that I was alive. I told them all what had happened and how Luna had been my savior. The last pony we visited was Twilight, she was at the library and when we knocked on the door we were greeted by Spike, he jumped the instant he saw me but he simmered down a bit when he saw I was with Fluttershy. “Is Twilight home?” Fluttershy asked Spike. “Yeah, she’s reading some books on medicine.” He said showing us the way to her location. “Hey Twi.” Spike said as the three of us entered the room where she was, there was a big stack of books on both sides of her. “Not now Spike! I told you I’m busy with some research.” She lashed, not moving her attention from the books. “Geez Twilight, you really got to have more fun.” I told her, she instantly looked up from her books and turned to look at me. “Peter? Peter!” She said focusing her eyesight on me, she used a spell to teleport from where she stood and appeared in front of me. “Hi Twilight!” I said as she took a minute to sink in the idea that I was alive and in front of her. “Huh? But how in the name of Celestia are you alive?” She said with a dumbfounded look on her face. “Well you can thank Luna, she came in saved my life with some spell.” I answered what I had told everypony else. “She did? Well whatever the reason. It’s great to see you okay and alive.” She said hugging me. “Wait so this is Pete?” Spike asked. “Oh I almost forgot, Spike, this is Peter, the person I've been living with.” We both shake hands and I noticed he looked older, not like when her became greedy but just older than in the show. It was good to see that they've been talking to about me with their loved ones, makes me feel less uncomfortable around everyone. “So when are you going back home?” Twilight asked me, I wasn't quite sure to be honest. “I have no idea, maybe today would be good. Don’t want to have my family worried about not being there for two days.” I shrugged. “Plus I don’t know if you girls are all coming or what.” Twilight thought for a second and smiled before telling us her idea. “I know how about you two go back and take a good time to do stuff, without us.” Twilight told me and Fluttershy. “What do you mean?” I asked her not sure if I had understood. “Yeah, just the two of you like old times; you can go out to a fair, dinner, things of that sort.” She explained better, sounded good to me. “I’m okay with that.” I said with a cheery smile. “What about you Fluttershy?” Twilight asked, turning to face her. “That would be lovely.” Fluttershy looked up at me and smiled. “Okay then, it’s settled! You two will take a few days without us to do whatever you want.” Whatever? “Well, if you could teleport us to my house that would be helpful, I mean if you’re ready Fluttershy.” I said, I really needed to head back home. “I’m ready; I hope you don’t mind checking on my animals though.” She told Twilight. “Not at all, now stand still so I can cast the spell.” She said back up a bit, her horn starting to light up a bit. I closed my eyes like always and when I reopened them I was standing in my living room, dazed by the light like always but when my vision cleared up I saw Fluttershy standing next to me. We were back at my house, safe and sound with everything as it was when we left. “Peter?” Fluttershy spoke, getting my complete attention. “Yes, Fluttershy?” I responded with a big smile on my face. “Please don’t ever leave me.” She said tearing up. I picked her up and gave her a tight hug. “I promise I won’t and I promise I’ll never do anything to hurt you like I did again.” I told her, myself feeling the joy of the moment. We spent the rest of the day in each others embrace, we talked, we laughed and we watched movies and we played games. We mainly did the activities we did when we had barely met. “Fluttershy...” I said looking into her beautiful eyes. We were lying on the bed while we talked. “Uh huh?” She responded in a playful manner. “I’m glad I freaked out when we met.” I said in all honesty. “What do you mean.” Not remembering what I told her at the hospital. “You know, when I first saw you on my bed. I’m really happy that I did what any other brony would've done in my place.” “I still remember how I bit you... I still feel bad for it.” She said slightly turning away, a blush visible on her face. “It’s these memories we’ll be recalling down the road.” I said before kissing her, a great way to end the day as after that we slowly drifted off to sleep in each others embrace. It had been a long day for both of us but after seeing her in sleeping in my arms I finally knew that nothing in this universe could separate us. > Chapter 19: Time Well Spent > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 19: Time Well Spent After my little accident I took a lot of caution with some stuff, I didn’t file a police report for my accident since I had no scars or anything to really demonstrate that it happened. Even after a few weeks I could still feel a bit of pain but a lot of care from Fluttershy’s part made it feel better a lot quicker. Even when I told her I was fine she refused to take my temperature of offer me some sort of remedy. Overall my life after that bad part of my life went pretty well. I started college and I managed to pass every class in my first semester with good grade. On the day I got my grades I decided to celebrate with the girls but everypony except for Fluttershy had gone to Equestria for a week but it was actually a pretty good thing to happen since I had wanted to take Fluttershy on a date for some time now. That evening went quite swell, we had dinner at a really fancy restaurant, the food was well worth the price and I got some time to talk with her about many subjects that I hadn’t really touched with her. Mainly really about her childhood and her parents and how she felt when she got her cutie mark. Thanksgiving came around and was surprised that they didn’t have an equivalent holiday in Equestria, but that didn’t stop us from celebrating it. We planned a party at the house, well; it was Pinkie who did all the planning after I gave them a brief history lesson about the holiday. We had my family over and even though they didn’t eat meat, they didn’t mind it when my parents showed up with a big cooked turkey. The only holiday we spent apart and only for a day was Christmas, on the 24th the girls went to Equestria to spend the day celebrating Hearth’s Warming Eve. Around 10 o’clock when I was coming back from my parent’s house since I had spent the day celebrating Christmas eve with them, I came home to find the already there and with dinner ready, Applejack said that since we were like a family we should celebrate the day together, we really didn’t specify which holiday we were celebrating but I didn’t give it much importance. I was the last one to go to bed; I stayed up a bit so I could place some gifts under the Christmas tree. Once done I headed towards my room but when I entered I noticed Fluttershy wasn’t in bed, in fact she was nowhere in sight. I simply decided that she was either in somepony’s room or in the bathroom changing. I slipped out of my clothes and into my pajamas. It wasn’t really cold since I had the thermostat on. I was just finishing settling in the sheets when I saw the bathroom door open and Fluttershy was standing there wearing her robe, she had a light blush on her face. “There you are, I was wondering where you were.” I said looking at her as she walked over to the bed. “I was just washing up.” She said as she stopped at the bedside “Man that dinner was great. So how was Hearth’s Warming Eve with your family?” I asked as I turned over to see her, she took off the robe and got into bed. “It was wonderful, I got to spend time talking with my parents about you.” She said, to my surprise this was the first time I hear her say that she mentioned me to her parents. “Really? What’d they say?” I asked intrigued to know about their opinion. “They said you sound like a nice guy, and that they would like to meet you sometime.” That was good to hear. “Well I would like to meet them too.” I said. “Peter… There is something I want to give you…” She said blushing. “Huh? What is it?” I asked. “Call it a Christmas present.” She answered. “Present? What kind of present?” I asked, but as soon as I ended my question she locked her lips with mine in a kiss. I had no idea what was going on, it wasn’t until she moved herself on top of me that the whole event was starting to sink into my head. “Are you sure you’re ready?” I asked her, her face at this point looked so sweet. “Yes, I’m sure.” She said, after that we pretty much started doing it. As much as I would’ve wanted this to be my first time, it still felt great and I could feel the love between the act, something that I didn’t feel when I did it with Luna. That Christmas night I got the best present in my life. A gift so well given with love that I sure hope I returned it with the same amount of love. All the experiences so far in my life, especially in these last two years leading up to the events of this night made me realize that I was in fact in a position a lot of bronies would’ve envied to have. It made me realize of how lucky I was to be chosen to have the mane six live in my life. The next morning I woke up early and in a good mood, Fluttershy was huddled up next to me in a fetal position, I made sure to not wake her when I got up. I bumped into Twilight when I was exiting the room. “Good morning Twilight.” I said facing her. “Peter! Thank Celestia you’re awake.” She answered turning around. “Huh? Are you going somewhere?” I asked her, she seemed to be in a bit of a rush. “Yeah, we totally forgot we had some business to attend in Ponyville.” She said hurrying out of the other girl’s rooms. “Okay, want me to wake Fluttershy then?” I asked about to open the door. “No, it really doesn’t involve her, as far as I know. It’s mainly personal business of each of us but since Fluttershy didn’t say anything last night when I asked her there is no need to.” She finished explaining. “Well at least open your presents before you girls leave.” I said. Its Christmas morning and I didn’t want them to miss out on the fun part of it. “We’d love to but there is no time, we’ve should’ve been in Ponyville by now.” Twilight said coming out of Pinkie’s room. “Well that’s a shame. I guess I’ll see you girls in a while.” They had all exited their rooms and were all standing in the hallway waiting for Twilight to do her spell. “Don’t worry; we’ll be back in a few days!” Pinkie assured me. “Okay then, take care.” I said waving goodbye and in a few seconds they were gone. I looked back into the room to see if Fluttershy was still asleep and indeed she was. I headed downstairs to the kitchen and started to prepare some breakfast. It took me a brief second to think of what to make. I decided to make the same breakfast I made two years ago when she first arrived, pancakes and scrambled eggs. While I made breakfast I started to remember everything that has happened in the last two years. All the time before that night on which Fluttershy appeared that I had wished for ponies to be one day real. I laughed at all the times I had to help her out with simple things like working the TV or the stove and the oven. Of all the time we were almost caught in the movie theater. Who would’ve known that she would become my girlfriend? Out of everything that single thought brought a tear of joy to my face. Even after everything I thought Fluttershy; she managed to teach me the joy of love and caring for others and their feelings. Even after two years I know that I’ll be teaching Fluttershy for a while about certain things but that I have all the time in the world to do so. This last statement brought another tear to my eye. “Peter, are you okay?” Fluttershy asked, I turned to face her with a big smile on my face and the tear running down my cheek. “I'm okay, in fact, everything is just perfect.” > Chapter 20: Coming Back. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 20: Coming Back Looking back at it, maybe things could've gone down a bit more different. I realize that now. No matter what I could have done, the signs were there. There was a knock at my door and I lazily got up from my chair to go answer. I didn't get much visitors this last year so I had no idea who it could be. “Peter? You home, honey?” I instantly recognized the voice as that of my mothers. She came to visit every other week. “Hey mom. Come on in.” I greeted her as I opened the door. She had with her a brown bag, probably from the local bakery. She gave me a hug and kiss on the cheek as we proceeded towards my living room. “So? How have you been?” She asked, placing the bag on the table and turning to face me. “Same old. Just going to work. Day in and day out.” I responded in an unenthusiastic tone. “Oh honey... Have you even gone out with any of your friends lately?” My mom asked. “Kinda. I went out with the guys to eat last Friday, but I came home early. Plus you know I don't really talk with the others that much anymore.” I responded, detailing what I had been up too. It had been a hard time lately. I felt completely worthless with each passing day but despite everyone assuring me that I wasn't the only one to blame, I still felt like I was the sole reason everything happened the way that it did. “Oh god...” She answered, sounding a bit disappointed. “You have to stop this, Peter. You can't go about the rest of your life pushing everyone to the side just because of one little bump of the road.” “You don't understand.” I retorted. “No son, you don't understand. Everything that happened with you and Fluttershy, all that bad stuff, you have to learn to let it go.” She continued. Me and Fluttershy had a falling out a year ago. I thought everything was going to be fine after the whole Luna incident but it turned out to be the spark that would ignite our biggest feud that ultimately ended on relationship. “I know, mom. It's just been really hard having to deal with all of it. We were together for four long years and then one day it just ends?” I countered, my eyes beginning to well up a bit. “I know honey but-” My mom said before I interrupted her. “And that's just looking at it through the 'normal' relationship side of the things. But the whole concept of her have being a cartoon character, my favorite cartoon character come to life...” I paused briefly. My eyes were completely tearing at this point. “That kinda thing... It just really does fuck you up a bit.” I finished before I completely burst into a crying mess. My mom proceeded to hug and comfort me. The rest of her visit went well. We had some coffee and cookies that she brought. We caught up on how my dad and brother were doing, as well as her and my sister. It was always great when my mom visited, she was one of the few people that ever did. Ever since Fluttershy left, I rarely had visit but that was more of my fault, I began to push a lot of people and good friends away. “Well it was good seeing you.” My mom said as she prepared to leave. “It was good seeing you too. Have a safe drive.” I replied. We hug one last time before she was on her way. I shut the door and turned around to go back to my room. Ever since the girls left, I moved to another house, this one a lot smaller than the other. I sighed as I sat at my desk and stared at my monitor. “Hello? Pamela?” I didn't know what else to do. My mom was right, I was pushing everyone away and that wasn't a good thing. I felt more and more alone each day and I was starting to have bad thoughts. “Yes? Who is this?” I heard a distinct voice on the other end of the phone. “Its me, Peter.” I replied. I was trembling, I hadn't spoken to her in so long. After the whole Fluttershy and me hooking up she was probably the first person I started to distance myself from. “Oh. Hey whats up?” She answered, somewhat surprised. “Not much. Just calling to say hi.” It was weird. Here I was, scared of talking to who was once my best friend. It felt strange and I think she could notice it in my voice. “Okay... Well hi to you too.” She replied. I couldn't think of anything to say, my mind was completely blank. “Well if that's all, please excuse me. I have to get back to work and my boss will kill me if he sees me talking on the phone.” I could tell she was a bit annoyed. “Sorry... It was good talking to you.” She hung up on me. I didn't even know if she heard that last part. I was devastated. Here I was all alone with not even being able to talk to one of my friends properly. This had all messed me up. It was pretty late so I decided to get ready to go to bed. I proceeded to put on my pajamas and head to bed. I tucked myself into bed and drifted off into slumber. “Come on. It was two years ago. I thought we had put this all behind us.” I recalled. I was furious and it started to show. “So? I still felt betrayed and now it turns out you kissed her? Right before you went and kissed me too?” Fluttershy retorted. She was pacing around the living room. “It didn't mean anything. Its just something I did to get her to back off and leave us alone.” I know I shouldn't have done that but I couldn't have known that Flutteshy would ever find out. There was a short moment of silence. Fluttershy seemed lost in thought. "It hurt... It hurt because even after that happened... You didn't want to do anything like that with me, even though I was in my human form." She replied. I was shocked as we had fooled around, albeit after much hesitation from my part. "I know... Its just... It was weird okay, at least it was for me. And after all that happened, not to mention the whole dying part, I just wanted a few months of peace and normality." I sighed. "Well good to know. Sorry to have pestered you afterwards with my affection. Sorry I can't be a real human for you to feel comfortable." She said before marching off. I was a spectator to this event. All I could do was stand idle as I saw everything play out over and over again. "That's not what I meant." I quickly replied, but it was too late. I sat on the couch trying to analyze how all of the sudden everything began to fall apart. Things that never bothered us or that we had put behind us was now just fuel for an argument. Sadly my mind began to think back to anything that could be used against her and in a fit of pure anger and wanting to get even with her, I committed my greatest mistake. I sprang up from the couch and marched towards our room. “You're not so innocent yourself you know.” I said as I entered the room. I had reached my boiling point. I wasn't thinking straight. “Excuse me?” Fluttershy had been facing away from me but as soon as I said that sentence she spun around to face me. “You know damn well.” If I had known back then that this next accusation was going to cost me everything I would've just shut up. “Don't say it!” I shouted to myself. I was standing behind Fluttershy, looking at the scene play out but they couldn't here me. I was just a spectator. “I don't know what you're talking about. But go ahead. Tell me. I've never hid anything from you.” She said walking up as close to me as possible. “STOP!” I shouted but to no avail. I was forced to witness this play out against my will. “Discord.” I replied. “What?” Fluttershy was caught off guard. “Last year when you went back to Ponyville for six months. The other girls told me you spent an awful lot of time with him in your house.” I wanted to run and myself in that moment. “What are you saying.” Flutteshy was getting visibly angry, her hand quickly turning into a fist. “You tell me.” I said smirking sarcastically at her. She and I knew very well what the accusation was. I watched with tears in my eyes as she punched me in the face. That punch was the one that ended it all. It sealed the fate of our relationship. I woke up to the sound of my alarm. It was eight in the morning and I was sitting up on my bed, this nightmare had been the vein of my existence for the last year. It happened a couple times a week, but I could never get used to it. “Damn it.” I muttered wiping a tear off my eye. I was fully awake and didn't know what to do. I had nothing planned for the day so after I was done eating breakfast I sat in my living room to watch some TV. I didn't feel like wasting another day off just moping around my house. I got ready and decided to go out for a drive around town. As I drove around while listening to music, I drove pass the theater. On a whim I decided to park and go and watch a movie. I stood in front of the ticket booth, looking at the movie schedules. I began to think back to all the times Flutteshy and I came here. She was big into watching movies and we used to come here every weekend. “How may I help you?” A voiced said, snapping me out of my train of thoughts. “Ah yes, sorry. One ticket please.” I replied as I looked at the man behind the glass window. “To what feature?” The man asked. “Any.” “Any?” He looked at me with a puzzled expression. ”Yeah. Just give me a ticket to what ever starts soon.” I answered. I didn't really care what movie. I just need something to occupy my time for the next few hours. “Alright... Here you go. Enjoy your movie.” I paid the man, bought some popcorn and a drink and proceeded to watch the movie. I found myself not paying much attention to the film itself. While it seemed interesting, my mind was elsewhere. After the movie I went to get some dinner and headed home. I ate and worked on some paperwork I had pending. I finished up and did the dishes before going to sleep. My face began to feel numb from Fluttershy's punch, which in turn angered me more. “What the fu- What's wrong with you?!?” I yelled as tears began to pour out of her face. “Just because you did something horrible doesn't mean you can just grasp at straws hoping that I will commit the same acts as you. If you had probed further you would have figured out that I was helping him device a plan to talk with Celestia because he likes her." She countered. Maybe it was true, maybe it is. I never really went into details and that was what ended it all, my stupid accusation. “And even if anything remotely similar had happened between me and Discord, I would've told you immediately just like you did. But if that's what you want to belive. Than so be it.” She said before bringing out an amulet that Twilight had given her to travel between worlds. I watched her leave without saying a word. It wasn't a flashy exit either, no magic and no special words required. She just opened it up and in a blink of an eye she was gone. I always expected her to come back but she never did. I woke up covered in sweat. I turned over to see the time and my phone indicated it was three in the morning. I was in shambles and gasping for air. This part of the nightmare was always the worst. I never said goodbye and neither did she. At that moment I had a strange urge, I felt like watching the series. I hadn't watched the series since the end of the fifth since it started to feel unnecessary, if I wanted to know any of the stories I could just ask Fluttershy or any of the other girls. But that night, for some strange reason I felt like watching it. I stood up and quickly turned on my computer and looked for the first episode of the sixth season. “One episode won't hurt. Hopefully...” I said as I pressed the play button. The intro had subtly changed but the theme brought back so many memories. I was in complete awe. It was as if I had discovered the show for the first time. It was absolute bliss, I even felt a tear roll down my cheek. It was about four thirty in the morning and I was on about to start the fourth episode of the season when the power went out. “Oh great.” I thought to myself as I grabbed my phone and turned it on. I saw the hour but I didn't really feel like going to bed. “Hopefully its just a fuse.” I said as I started to head to the basement where the fuse box was. After restoring the power in my house I headed to my room again, not before grabbing some left over cookies and a glass of milk. “Time to resume the episode.” I thought as I walked into my room. I nearly dropped the plate and glass in my hands. I stood there for a good minute without saying a single word, just staring. Staring in disbelief. “Hello.” The silence was finally broken. “H-Hello... Fluttershy.” > Chapter 21: Heartbroken But Coping > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 21: Heartbroken But Coping It was a rather chilly morning. Winter was just on its way out and Fluttershy was wrapped in a blanket, reading a book while drinking her cup of tea. It was going to be a calm day, Fluttershy had little to no plans so she had decided to just stay home and read some books. After breakfast, she checked up on all her animals and once they were taken care of, she decided to head into town to buy some groceries for the week. “It's been one year already.” She thought to herself. She felt bad for never trying to apologize but at the same time she felt that she wasn't the one who needed to do so. After she arrived back it was rather hard for her to dodge the questions of why she came back, it wasn't until Twilight finally pressured her into saying the truth. “What?!?” Twilight exclaimed. “How did it get to this point?” She continued to question, “Well... Things had been going downhill for a while and well... It just ended. He said things. I said things and that was that.” Fluttershy answered as she fidgeted around with the amulet. She had originally only come to give it back but she ended up telling her the story. “But I mean what triggered this moment? What were you two fighting about?” Twilight said, trying to grasp the situation. “Luna.” Flutteshy replied. “Luna?” Twilight wondered before taking a short pause. “Oh. Oh no. Don't tell me he was lying about it.” She concluded. “I... I don't know. You see whether that part was real or not is not the problem. Its what happened shortly before he went to my house that day.” She explained to Twilight who was wide eyed by her story. “What happened.” She asked, wanting to know more. “He kissed her. He kissed her by his own accord with the excuse that it was to get her to stop bothering him. After all this time of believing Luna had just trust herself onto him. Turns out he did do at least one thing willingly.” Fluttershy finished explaining. “But... I'm sure his reasons were valid. I mean I thought you had all put this aside that time the princesses had invited us to their Heart's Warming party.” Twilight said, She was in utter surprise. “We did... It just...” Fluttershy said, getting a little agitated. “The part that peeves me is that... Even after all that, he never really did anything affectionate with me... At least not for a while. We were a couple but only by reference. We didn't do many couple activities besides going on dates and a kiss here and there.” Fluttershy recollected. “That's odd. Everytime we spoke you said everything was going great.” Twilight said. “Why didn't you ever say anything?” “I don't know. I was just hopeful that any day he would start to be more romantic, I mean its not like I wasn't romantic myself. I did a a lot of things to encourage him but nothing. That's when things started to go downhill.” Fluttershy was sad but she knew that there was no use in trying to fix things, there was no apparent sign that anything would fix their relationship at that point. “Wow. That's pretty sad. After all these years... I was really rooting for you guys.” Twilight said in a sad tone. “If you need to cry, I'm here for you.” “It's funny. I'm sad, heartbroken even. But I guess I already did all the crying I wanted. Its funny and sad...” She replied, wiping a single tear from her eye. “Hey there, sugar cube!” Flutteshy was snapped out of thought by a familiar voice. “Oh! Applejack! Hi, how are you?” Flutteshy asked her friend who had walked up to her. “I'm doing great, partner. Just out here running some chores for the barn. What about you?” She had two bags with her, filled with various farm supplies. “I'm just doing some grocery shopping.” She said with a smile on her face. “Great! That's great news.” Applejack replied, giving her friend a pat on her back. “So... How you feeling?” “What do you mean?” Fluttershy answered, puzzled by the question. “Well it's been one year since you came back. I was wondering how you were holding up.” Applejack asked, wanting to know how her friend was coping. “Oh yeah... That... I'm hanging in there.” Fluttershy answered vaguely. “Are you sure, sugarcube? You seem a little off today.” Applejack said. “Can't say I haven't thought about it but you know, I'm doing good... It's not like I feel the need to rush back and say I'm sorry.” Fluttershy replied rather resentfully. “I'm not thinking about how it was his fault and that I did the right thing by coming back, By never once thinking that I should probably go back and get some of my belongings.” “Woah” Applejack muttered with a wide-eyed expression. “Why would I be thinking that? Huh?” Fluttershys tone quickly turned from anger to sadness. “Why? Huh? Why was I so foolish and never went back?” “There, there... It's okay, just let out.” Applejack said, giving her friend a much needed hug. “Do you think it would be foolish to go back now?” Fluttershy asked her friend, as tears rolled down her face. “Yes.” She replied. “But... I actually think you should go.” “Really?” Fluttershy was surprised by her friends response. “Look, I don't know all the details as to how things went down but if there is one thing I'm sure of.” Applejack said, taking a pause to adjust her hat. “Peter never seemed like the kind of guy to hold grudges, especially towards you. Were bad things said between the both of you? Yes, most definitely. But...” “But what?” Fluttershy asked as her friend. “Did I ever tell you about what he told me when we went to the theater for the first time?” Applejack questioned. Fluttershy tried to remember but shook her head as she didn't remember. “Well you know how you were all confused because you didn't know how to tell him you liked him? Well when he left to the bathroom I followed him, cause he seemed sorta upset.” “Yeah...” Fluttershy said, listening closely to her friend. “When I asked him what was up and he told me that he was upset because he didn't know what was wrong with you. Funny isn't it? And I could tell he was honest about it. I could tell right away that he was being honest when he said he genuinely cared about you.” Applejack told Fluttershy, who had a few tears in her eyes. “Wow. I'm surprised you never told me.” Fluttershy said. Brushing the tears off her eyes. “I didn't ever think I would need to.” She answered. “Now that doesn't mean he is forgiven, just that maybe he mind wasn't in the right place when the two of you fought. Maybe you shouldn't rush back to him. But maybe if you want closure... Well then maybe you could always pay him a quick visit.” “I'm... I'm not sure I should. I mean what if he's moved on? What if he already forgot about me or what if he has someone else? How am I just going to barge in unannounced?” Fluttershy had thought about it but she wasn't sure it would be a good idea. “Like I said, Fluttershy. You don't have to do it, even if you want to settle things. That is only an option.” Applejack stated. Fluttershy continued with her shopping trip after talking with her friend. She was making a mental list of the pros and cons of going back. She didn't want to tell Applejack but she had already been thinking all day of the idea of going back and with the story that her friend told her, she was warming up to the thought of returning. Fluttershy returned home, hoping to continue reading her book. It was getting pretty late so she made herself a cup of tea and headed to her room. She looked inside the drawer of her nightstand to grab her reading glasses. “Oh my...” She said as she began to tear up. Inside the drawer was a photo of her and Peter laying together on the grass, smiling widely at the camera. It was a photo they took shortly before their fight, when they went camping together. “I miss you so much.” She said as more and more tears ran down her face and onto the picture. She placed the picture next to her lamp and proceeded to read her book for a while before falling asleep. “Where am I?” Fluttershy said as she woke up. She was inside what appeared to be a tent. “Hello?” She called out as she left the tent. To her surprise she was in the middle of the wilderness, surrounded by trees. She instantly recognized the place as the spot where they had camped. “Hey! Over here Fluttershy!” She heard a familiar voice call out for her. “Peter? Is that you?” She called out as she began to run towards the direction of the voice. “Yeah! I'm over here, by the lake!” She heard the voice call again. She rushed towards him, tears of joy running down her face. As she walked over to the lake, she could see he was standing by the lake shore, looking away from her. As she got closer to what appeared to be Peter, she stuck her arm out to touch him when her suddenly turned around. “Oh! There you are!” He said in a cheeful tone. “I thought you wouldn't find me.” “Well I just followed your voice.” Fluttershy said with a big smile forming on her face. “That's good news!” He said before placing both of his hands on Fluttershy. “Now there is something really important I want to tell you.” “Sure! What is it?” Fluttershy said attentively. “I just want to say that I'm sorry...” He started saying, his grip on Fluttershy tightening. “Woah! Hey you're hurting me Peter.” She said, trying to break free from his clutch. “I'm really sorry but... I just don't love you anymore.” He said. In a blink of an eye he threw her in the lake. Fluttershy kicked and screamed as she had no time to react to event. “I'm sorry. I guess I just love Luna more.” Fluttershy heard Peter say, as she began to drown. She was desperately trying to swim out but it felt as if something was dragging her deeper into the lake. “Help!” She finally screamed, her eyes shut tight. “Fluttershy. It's okay.” She heard a different voice say, as she felt someone placing a hoof on her shoulder. “Princess Luna?” She said in between gasp for air. She was no longer being dragged into the deep end of a lake, she was now in the middle of what appeared to be a completely white room, with the princess standing next to her. “It's okay. It was just a nightmare.” Luna explained as she helped Fluttershy stand up. “A terrible one too.” Fluttershy added. “Why are you here?” “Well I'm in charge of dreams and I saw you were having a nightmare.” Luna explained before pausing. “Also because it felt like the best time to talk with you.” “Talk with me about what?” Fluttershy asked with a puzzled look. “Well it has finally been brought to my attention why you returned.” She explained. “Oh...” Fluttershy said. She felt a knot in her throat. Fluttershy and Luna never really saw each other that besides a few social events and even then, they never really talked. Fluttershy always hoped Luna wouldn't find out the reason. “And judging by that nightmare, I'll take it that you haven't forgiven me.” Luna said with a rather sadden tone. “I guess not...” Fluttershy mutted, avoiding eye contact. “I know what I did had no justification, it was out of character even.” She began to explain. “I won't lie and say I didn't believe my actions would not have consequences, but I never thought they would get that bad.” “Heh. Don't put all the blame on yourself, Luna. He willingly kissed you afterwards.” Fluttershy scoffed. She was going through a flurry of emotions, “Yes. But you have to understand that he didn't mean ill will with it.” Luna continued. “He told me that he only did it to calm me down. Whether that's what he told you I don't know.” “He said something like that.” Fluttershy finally turned to look at her. She was frowning at the princess as tears flowed from her eyes. “I know you're hurt, Fluttershy. So is he.” Luna said as she slowly approached her. “I've,,, I've been observing him lately.” “And?” Fluttershy retorted. “He hasn't moved on.” Luna said. This response intrigued Fluttershy. “He's still waiting for you.” “W-what?” Fluttershy was in disbelief as her biggest fear was quelled. “I can understand if you choose to never forgive me, I can live with that. But if you still care for him...” Luna said as tears now formed in her eyes. “He could probably use a quick visit. At least to clear the air.” Fluttershy was taken aback by the statements. Here she was thinking for the longest time that Peter had already moved on, that he no longer cared for her only to realize that he's been suffering just like her. “I... I forgive you, Luna.” Fluttershy finally uttered after there was a moment of silence between the two, “Really?” Luna was relieved. “I won't pretend I'm not hurt still, but I guess whatever happened, sadly happened.” Fluttershy explained. “I understand...” It wasn't the apology Luna was hoping for but at least they can hopfully put this past them now. “Thank you.” Fluttershy stated. Luna simply smile and nodded before disappearing in a flash of light. Fluttershy woke up in her bed this time. She grabbed the photo from next to lamp and looked at it with a big smile on her face. She sighed heavily before getting up and walking over to hair dresser and began to look around for small box. “Ah-ha!” She said as she dug it up, she hurried downstairs to write a note. Once finished she stuck it to her front door and proceeded to do a few quick chores. When she finished feeding all her animals she took a moment to explain what she was going to do and that there would be somepony else taking care of them for a while. She rushed up to her room to pack a few things she might need. She stuffed a suitcase with some clothes and other miscellaneous goodies. “Well...” She said taking a deep breath. She opened the box and took out a single item from within. “Here goes nothing.” She said to herself, as she placed the amulet around her neck. > Chapter 22: Memories > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 22: Memories “Fluttershy!” I screamed as I shot up from my chair. I felt devastated as I quickly realized what had happened. I paused the episode that was still playing on my computer, it was morning already. After taking a moment to compose myself, I proceeded to head downstairs to get some breakfast. While looking in the fridge for something to prepare, my mind began to process the dream I had. I was rather upset I didn't get a chance to ask her any questions before waking up. “Could she have been trying to tell me something? Could this be a sign?” I thought of the possibility that maybe it wasn't a dream but instead some sort of message, meant to let me know Fluttershy was trying to communicate. Not wanting to think much about it, as it would only sadden me more, I decided to try and occupy myself for the rest of the day. I began by cleaning and reorganizing the house, I had moved into a smaller home so it wasn't going to be as much of a hassle as the previous one. While going through some boxes in the closet, I happened across an album of photos simply labeled "Fluttershy's Album" “Huh? I thought she had taken this.” I thought as I began to go through the album. I was quickly hit with a wave of emotions. There were a lot of photos from when I gave her a camera for our first Christmas together. Each picture had a date written below it and a few even having titles. “Lazy Sunday.” I read one of the titles out loud. It was a picture of me sleeping when we still lived with my parents. “Snow day!” Read another one, this time the photo was one of Fluttershy that I had taken. She was in the kitchen of our previous home preparing some hot chocolate as she stared out the window on a snowy winter day. I began to smile as I went through the album, a few tears dropping onto the pages. When I began to reach the end of the album I noticed less and less photos. I reached the final one and instantly felt bittersweet as I stared at it. “Camping trip...” I read out loud the title of the photo which had a little heart drawn next to it. My hand trembled slightly as I brought the image closer to inspect it. “Is this a good place?” I asked Fluttershy as we drove up to the campsite. She seemed really excited about this trip. Ever since I got promoted at work I had been working a lot more, including weekends which meant I hadn't been spending much time with her. “This place looks lovely. Plus the lake is nearby.” She said cheerfully, turning over to look at me. I was happy that we finally had some time to spend together. “Alright, this place it is.” I said pulling over. We set up the tent rather quickly between the both of us. I also brought along some firewood to set up a campfire later. After everything was set I decided to catch up with her. I told Fluttershy about what had been going on at work and she told me about how things were back in Equestria. “Rarity presented her new fashion collection in Canterlot this week...” Fluttershy said before taking a sip of her drink. “There were so many ponies at the boutique, the girls and I had to step in to help for a bit.” “Oh crap. That was this week? I totally forgot.” Rarity had invited us both but sadly work kept me from going. “No worries. I told her they had you working extra hours in the office.” Fluttershy said before letting out a sigh and the faint smile she had disappeared. Even if she didn't outright say it, I knew she was somewhat upset with me for flaking out on so many of our dates and plans lately. “...I'm sorry.” I muttered. “Don't be... It's okay.” She replied, not glancing up from her drink. There was silence between us for a good while. She began to read a book she had brought along and I decided to snap a few quick photos of the forest around us. While it wasn't a great start to the trip, things eventually settled and the rest of the trip went smoothly. “I guess they're just memories now..” I said to myself before putting the photo and album back in the box. I realized some other things that belonged to Fluttershy were also in this closet, including a box with some winter clothes. I pulled out a green turtleneck sweater she wore a lot. “It's still so soft...” I said, brushing the sweater against my face. I reminisced to those winter mornings where we would just lie in bed huddled together, keeping each other warm while watching movies. Just as I was in the middle of another memory my stomach grumbled. It was already past noon and I had eaten a light breakfast. On a whim I decided to get ready and head to the mall to grab some lunch and just walk around for a bit to clear my head. As I sat down at a table with my food, I noticed a couple sitting a few tables away from mine. They were chatting and laughing and as I stared at them, I began to drift away to another memory. “Come on! You'll love this place!” I was excited. This was the first time I took Fluttershy to a public place in her human form. “Oh... I'm not too sure... What if someone notices I'm not a normal human.” She was rather nervous. We were sitting in the car in the mall's parking lot. “Don't be silly. You look as normal as I or any other person here.” I assured her. While I had taken her to public places before, I had never taken her somewhere she was this exposed that had this many people walking about. “What about my hair?” She asked. “Plenty of people color their hair. We can just say you did it for a dare or cause you wanted to dye your hair pink.” I answered, placing my hand on her shoulder. She looked down, thinking for a second before looking up at me and smiling. “Alright... I'll trust you..” I could tell she was a bit nervous still but I was going to make sure she felt safe and most importantly, that she had fun. As we entered the mall, Fluttershys grip on my arm tighten which was to be expected but as we walked around and talked while I showed her all the stores I usually visit and grabbed some food she began to relax. She really enjoyed that first trip to the mall. I was snapped out of my thoughts with a loud thud from someone dropping their tray on the floor. I realized I hadn't touched my food and it had begun to get cold. Not wasting anymore time I ate it all rather quickly and once finished I got up and walked around a bit. “Here!” I said, surprising Fluttershy. I told her to wait for me at the fountain in the middle of the mall. “Oh my goodness!” She exclaimed cheerfully as she placed both her hands in front of her mouth. “I know it doesn't come close to replacing Angel, but I thought you might like it either ways.” I said handing her a plush bunny toy I bought at the toy store. She grabbed it and stared at it for good few seconds without saying anything. I waited patiently for her to say something, it had only been a couple of weeks since the other girls had arrived and explained the situation of why she was here and just a couple of days since we finally told one another how we felt. “I-- Thank you... I love it.” She finally mustered the courage to say something, her eyes welling up a bit. “No problem...” I said before kissing her on the cheek. “And hey, maybe once Twilight can consistently travel between here and Equestria we can bring the real Angel here.” “I would love that...” She said, with the most tender smile ever. I stopped in front of that toy store as I finished that memory. I decided to go in just to waste more time and wondered around each aisle just looking at all the different toys. “Need help finding anything?” I heard a female voice ask. I turned to look at her and I was stunned. The female employee was looking at me but what caught me off guard was her long pink hair. “F-Fluttershy?” I mumbled. The employee looked confused at my question. “Sorry... Umm... Fluttershy. The pony from My Little Pony.” I panicked and began to talk without making sense. “You're looking for My Little Pony toys?” She asked. “YES! My.... Niece wants a pony toy for her birthday.” I quickly made up an excuse to try and not come off as crazy or a creep, which at this point I think she assumed either ways. “Yeah, they're two aisle down that way.” She signaled. “Thank you.” I quickly ended the exchange and walked away. “Oh man, I'm really loosing it...” I thought to myself. As I explored their selection of pony toys I couldn't help but smile a bit. “I remember when I thought you were nothing more than toys and cartoons.” I thought to myself. “Oh the convincing it would take to get you to wear this..” I laughed a little while inspecting a figure of Rainbow Dash wearing a dress. My attention however was quickly shifted when I spotted a small yellow plush toy. “...Hey.” I muttered to the small Fluttershy plush, part of me wishing it would answer me. I deliberated slightly but decided to buy it. I walked up to the counter and the same girl with the pink hair rang me up. “Hope your niece likes it!” She said with a smile as she handed me the bag with the faux Fluttershy in it. “I hope so too!” I tried to act as natural as I could but for some reason, buying this plush toy made me feel awkward. I hurried out of the store and decided to call it a day. I headed towards my car and got in. I placed the bag on the passenger seat and drove home. It was dark when I arrived home and as I parked in the driveway I stared at the house. I hadn't left any lights on so It looked real dark from the outside. I grabbed the bag from the seat and pulled out the plush. “Hey...” Again no answer. “I hope you don't mind the smaller house.” I said out loud as I pointed the plush towards the house, so she could look at it. “I mean it's just the two of us now, so space wise, that shouldn't be a problem...” I paused. I felt my emotions begin to revolt. “But then again... You never cared about the material stuff...” I placed the plush on my car's dashboard, so she would be facing me. “You cared about.... About me....” I felt a lump in my throat. “And I let you go for a petty accusation...” I paused for a moment. Yearning for the plush Fluttershy to answer me. I began to tear up but burst out laughing instead. “Oh man... If you saw me like this... Talking to a toy version of you like I did before I knew you were real... You'd probably think... You'd probably think why you ever loved me...” I felt tears begin to roll down my eyes. I felt angry, I felt sad. I just wanted to cry and to shout, as if that would make anything right. “But no... I just had to have the last word, didn't I? Come on... Answer me... ANSWER ME!” I yelled at the poor plush toy whose lifeless gaze only riled me up even more. "Wait...You're not so innocent yourself. You found it easy to just disappear. Vanish into thin air. I didn't get the last word... You did... Is that what you wanted to hear? That you won!?" I let out a sigh as I tried to calm myself. "You're probably with someone else. Can't say I like the idea, but I wouldn't blame you if you are." I said, picking up the plush and holding her in front of my face. “...I fucked up, okay? I fucked up badly... There, I said it... Is that what you wanted to hear, huh? I can't live without you, Fluttershy...” I burst into tears as I grabbed the plush and hugged it tightly. “I need you here. Please... If you're looking at me right now with the weird pony magic. I can't live without you... I don't want to live without you...” I lost track of time as I cried in my car, soaking the plush with my tears. Eventually I mustered the energy to go inside my house. I got to my room and laid down, placing Fluttershy next to me. “Goodnight...” I muttered to the plush as I drifted off to sleep. I awoke in a white room. There was nothing no matter where I turned. “Hello?” I called out as I walked around trying to figure out where I was. Suddenly a soft female voice broke through the silence, a voice which I hadn't heard for a long time but that I could still identify. “She misses you too...” “...Luna...” I said softly before waking up to my alarm. It was morning already and the sun was coming in through my bedroom window. I felt confused. I wasn't sure what to make of the dream. All I could do was grab the plush and wonder if it was just a dream or if this could finally be a real message. > Chapter 23: Familiar Places > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 23: Familiar Places Fluttershy opened her eyes and just like that she was standing in front of a very familiar house. She smiled from ear to ear as she approached the front door while reaching her hoof into her bag to look for the keys. “Aha! There they are.” She exclaimed as she pulled out the set of keys from her bag. She proceeded to insert the key but to her surprise, the key no longer fit into the keyhole. “Huh? I guess he really was upset with me.” She thought, believing to herself that maybe I had switched out the locks in order to avoid her coming into the house, should she choose to return. “Guess I'll try some other way.” Fluttershy stood on the porch for a second, pondering what other way into the house she could use. “The door is locked and I don't see any car parked in the garage... I guess he isn't home.” She said as she flew around inspecting the front of the house. “Well we usually kept the back door open.” She thought. She decided to fly to the backyard and check. “Yes!” She said twisting the doorknob and to her luck, it was indeed open. As she stepped into the home and into the living room, a rush of warm memories fell over her. She reminisced about her friends helping move in all the furniture after they arrived. She sat on the couch and drifted off into a memory. “Are you sure this was the right choice? This house was expensive, you sure we'll be alright here?” Fluttershy asked me. We were alone in our new room, organizing all the furniture and clothes. “We'll be fine. Don't worry about it. I still have enough money in the bank to get us by while I manage to find a decent job.” I answered, giving her a reassuring smile. To be honest I was a bit worried for a while since I wasn't expecting to suddenly have to provide for Fluttershy, let alone for all five of her friends as well. We did however thankfully find a way to maintain our finances. We were able to get a spot at the local farmers market. Thankfully all of the girls were more than happy to sell some of Applejack's and Pinkie's baked goods. With Applejack being able to provide apples from her family's orchard and Pinkie being one talented baker, we were able to sustain ourselves financially that way. “See I told you we would be fine.” I went to stand next to Fluttershy who was taking a break from tending our bakery stand. “I have to say this was quite the excellent idea, Peter. We all get to work together and we don't have to burden you with having to pay for everything.” “Oh come on now. Neither you nor your friends would ever be a burden to me. As long as your here, I will do everything and anything to take care of you.” There was a small pause as we just looked at each other and smiled. Fluttershy got off the couch, alerted by the sound of a car pulling into the driveway. “Peter!” She thought as she ran to the front door, but then something caught her attention. She noticed a few framed pictures that were hanging in the hallway that led to the entrance. But to her surprise they weren't photographs of anyone she recognized. “Who are these people?” She thought to herself but in the same moment the front door opened and a couple walked in, the same mysterious couple from the photographs. “What the-” The man was about to ask when his wife started screaming at the top of her lungs. “WHAT IS THAT THING!?” She exclaimed as she pointed at Fluttershy who was just standing there, frozen out of fear and staring at the couple. “I-I'm...” Fluttershy tried to talk but was to afraid to say anything else. “Did it just talk?” The man asked, but just as Fluttershy prepared to speak another word. “Honey!” The man quickly tried to catch his wife who had now fainted out of fright. Fluttershy quickly grabbed her bag and made a dash for the front door. “I'm so sorry!” She said as she flew at top speed past the couple. She flew as far away from the house as she could, avoiding any streets or houses where more people could potentially see her. Fluttershy finally landed a couple streets away where she was out of sight. “Oh Peter, why would you move out of there without telling-” She quickly realized that there was no way she could've known. She didn't exactly have a way of communicating and even if she did, after the whole fight she was pretty sure this was probably more of a deliberate choice. “Wait a second...” She said as she put her bag on the floor and quickly began to look through it. “Please be here, please be here.... Aha!” She said pulling out her old cellphone from the bag. “All I gotta do is call him.” But as she tried to turn the phone on, nothing happened. “Of course.” She sighed as she had realized that it had been a year since she last used it and with no need for it in Ponyville, the battery was completely drained. She slumped to the ground, feeling unsure as what to do next. She needed to charge her phone as that would be the main way to get in contact with anyone here. The only problem was that she didn't know where to go. Upon much thought she decided to make her way to the mall. It wasn't far from where she was and it would surely be a safe bet that she could charge her phone there. Upon arriving to the mall undetected she found a secluded area and used the amulet to transform into her human form, and after putting on some clothes she walked in through the entrance. She felt a rush of nostalgia as she walked through the mall. This was one of her favorite places, whether she was there shopping with her friends or killing time while she waited for a movie to start. She figured the best place to find and outlet to charge her phone would be around the food court, although she was also starting to feel hungry. Upon confirming that she had some cash on her, she bought a salad and a lemonade and found a place to charge her phone. While she was eating her food, she thought back to the day of her first visit here. Fluttershy was standing by the fountain in the middle of the mall. I had told her to wait there while I was off buying her a plush bunny to surprise her. She was looking around happily not only at the fountain but at the people that just like her were there enjoying their visit. “Hey miss!” Fluttershy quickly turned around and was greeted by a little girl looking up at her. “Hi there.” Fluttershy said with a smile on her face. “Can I ask you a question?” The little girl said. “Sure!” “How did your hair turn pink?” Fluttershy laughed a little. “I just got my friend to dye it for me.” “Nice! Your hair looks just like the hair of my favorite pony toy!” The little girl said cheerfully. “There you are.” A lady said as she picked up the kid. “Sorry if she bothered you miss.” “Oh not at all, she seems delightful.” Fluttershy said, the lady walked away with the little girl and she just waved goodbye at Fluttershy. She continued to wait for me. She didn't know why but for some reason that encounter with the little girl and seeing all the families walking about made her start thinking about our relationship. How far would we go? Was this just temporary? It was then that I finally arrived and gifted her the plush bunny. We had a short exchange and by the looks of it, she was more than happy with my small sign of affection. Fluttershy leaned in for a hug and I gladly accepted it. We walked around for another while before we decided to head back home. The sun had set by the time we got home and as we parked on the driveway we saw the lights in the living room were on and the shadows of the other girls walking about. “Peter...” Fluttershy said, catching me off guard right as I was going to open the door. “What's up?” I asked, I noticed she wasn't looking at me but instead she was staring at the bunny plush, softly petting it. She seemed to be hesitating on whether she wanted to say what was on her mind or not. “Do you think... We could ever be a family?” I felt silent as I just stared at her. Was she being serious? What was she hinting at? Getting married? Or something else? “I-I... Umm. Yeah, totally.” I said nervously although judging by Fluttershy's expression, this was probably not the response she was hoping to hear. “Oh...” Fluttershy said a little disheartened turning her gaze back at the plush bunny. “No! I didn't mean it like that.” I desperately tried to fix the misunderstanding. “I just mean, like I wouldn't know how the specifics would work out.” “So you don't even plan on getting intimate?” “That's not what I mean!” I felt a bit overwhelmed. For whatever reason this question caught me off guard. We had only been dating for short time so her asking if we could ever be a family implied that she had chosen to stay here and not only that, but if I'm think correctly, maybe she even wanted kids. “That's alright. I was just asking. If you don't have an answer, don't worry about it.” Fluttershy replied. Fluttershy finished her food and decided to check on her phone. “That should be enough charge.” The battery had charged halfway, which was more than she hopefully needed to turn on the phone and make a couple calls. She looked at all the notifications she had and noticed that she had a couple missing calls from a bunch of different numbers and noticed I had last called her number about three months after she left. She quickly looked through her contacts and found the number she was looking for. “Come on... Please answer...” She said but the phone just kept on ringing until a computer voice answered. “Sorry but the number you tried to call is no longer in service.” Fluttershy couldn't help but feel frustrated and defeated as she hung up the phone. “Maybe this is a sign? Maybe I should just go back...” She thought to herself as she grabbed the amulet that was hanging around her neck. Whatever she decided to do, she had to do it quick. It was getting pretty late and while winter may have been ending in Equestria, here it was barely starting and the last thing she wanted was to pass the night outside in the cold. She started to go through her phone to see if she could think of an idea and while looking through her photos she came across one that she took with my mom and Pinkie during an outing. “That's it!” She thought to herself, while I may not live at the same place anymore, Fluttershy knew she could probably still find my parents living in the same house. She decided she had nothing to loose and if they weren't there either than that would be a sign that she should head back to Ponyville. She decided to risk it and ordered a ride to my parents house. She gathered her belongings and went outside to wait for her ride. “Good evening!” The driver greeted Fluttershy. “Hello.” “Flutter...Shy? Interesting, is that a nickname or your actual name?” The driver asked, she seemed real cheerful, in the same vein as Pinkie. “It's my actual name.” Fluttershy replied with a small smile on her face. “Awesome! When I was born my brother wanted to name me Princess Buttercup, my parent's scolded him. She ain't a cat they said.” She made small talk with Fluttershy who was just looking out the window, distracted with the thought of maybe finally seeing me again. “Oh boy! Looks like it's gonna be a snowy night!” Fluttershy just looked out the window. Every place they drove by reminded her of a memory, whether it was a place we went to on a date or were just out shopping and doing errands together. “Almost there!” The driver said as she stopped at a red light, in front of a park that was all too familiar to Fluttershy. It was the park she had run away to when I first introduced her to my family. As she was thinking back to this she took notice of a figure standing below a tree, the same tree she had landed on. She noticed the figure was staring up at the tree. Fluttershy in that moment had an urge to get off the car and approach the figure, it was almost as if a hidden force was egging her on to approach. “If you don't mind... I'm gonna get off here.” Fluttershy said, not taking her eye off the figure. “You sure? We're still like two blocks away.” “Yeah, I'll have someone pick me up here.” Fluttershy paid for her trip and quickly got off and started to approach the figure. As she got closer, the parks lighting started to make out the details of this figure. “Could... Could it be?” Fluttershy thought as she slowed down. She was now a couple feet away from this person. There was no doubt in her mind of who this figure was. She felt a smile form on her face, the biggest smile she had ever felt. Her heart was racing from the excitement. She called out the figures name, who upon hearing someone behind them, turned around slowly. They locked eye contact with one another and just stared at each other, not saying anything.