Author's Note

Been very busy as of late. Allot of shit going on, I can barley keep my sanity. Hope no one gets to confused by all of this, if you do I can answer any questions you might have. Majority of this has been set up in Orphan. Just an fyi, the things my character does during this, the sleep walking and falling asleep standing up. Yes I actually did do that once. I wouldn't recommend it what so ever.

A Dead Visitor

Fluttershy:

I found myself staring out the window, wasn’t sure what time it was. All I really knew I was staring out the window, my mind was blank and the whole world was still. I heard a scratching noise, at first I ignored it. But then it got louder, and louder. I then noticed it wasn’t one thing, it was several. Angel bunny was scolding me probably trying to tell me he was hungry. All my little critter friends were whining to be fed. I honestly didn’t care, I just stared at them. I felt so ill, just sitting there looking at them. A flash of blood and mangled bodies filling my house engulfed my head.

“NO!” I looked around and I noticed I was in bed. The sun was just rising, I was maybe an hour early from my normal wake up time. I pushed my blankets and sheets off of me and headed to the bathroom. I was in a cold sweat I felt incredibly ill. Images started flashing in my head from the rest of the dream I just had. My friends and my little critter friends…I killed them all.

“Fluttershy! I got your bowl!” I heard Ashura’s voice yell as he knocked at my door.

“How about a warning!” I heard Ace’s voice say surprised. I shook the images out of my head and headed for the door. A look in the mirror would have been helpful, the look from both of their faces told me I didn’t look proper.

“Flutters, you alright?” Ash asked me looking concerned.

“Yeah, rough night.” I said with a chuckle, wasn’t going to tell them about the nightmare. Whatever I ate last night, I’m never eating again if I’m going to dream like that. Although I don’t remember eating anything, I don’t even remember going to bed.

“Here’s your bowl.” Ace said hoofing the bowl to me. He also was avoiding my eyes. He wasn’t like this last time.

“Thank you.” I said offering a warm smile. It seemed to perk him up a little.

“Thank you for letting me borrow it.” I don’t remember lending it to him, but I guess I did. I hardly even use this bowl anymore anyway. “We should probably get back.”

“Get back to what?” I heard myself ask.

“We are cleaning Ace’s hut. Wrench is an idiot is all I can comment on the subject.” Ashura said with a frown. He took off his fedora and looked at the inside, he then stuck his face inside and started to snore.

“Yeah, he hasn’t slept yet.” Ace said feeling embarrassed. I looked at Ashura and he was sound asleep, standing up. I looked at Ace and he had his eyes closed, was he asleep too? I poked him with my hoof and he jumped.

“You okay?” I asked worried, he wasn’t asleep like Ash. It looked like something was bothering him.

“Actually I’m not okay, this entire ordeal is allot to deal with. I moved away from the city I was born in, not like I had anypony there keeping me there. To top it off, now I have to deal with my living arrangements. Ashura is nice and all but he’s a little off the rocker.” He was very upset, so I gave him a hug. One of the best cures to cure any ailment.

“It’ll be okay Ace. Ashura usually isn’t like this, I mostly see him so serious. It’s a little nice to see him act like this. Everything will be just fine.” I said offering a smile. He returned the hug and the smile.

“Thank you Fluttershy.” He said.

“Gah! Where the hell is the world?” Ash said when he woke up. Turned out he fell down when he was asleep standing on all fours.

“Look who’s awake.” Ace said with a smirk.

“I didn’t say anything stupid did I?” Ash asked putting his fedora back on his head.

“Maybe just a little.” Ace said with a chuckle. He seemed to have snapped out of his loopy stage when he doesn’t sleep. Now comes the over serious and critical part. “You might want to take him home and have Twilight get him to sleep.”

“Probably a good idea.” Ace said agreeing.

“What the hell are you two whispering about?” Ashura asked looking irritated.

“You’re coming with me.” Ace said grabbing his tie and pulling him into town.

“And where are we going?” Ashura said following willingly, probably afraid of ruining his favorite tie.

“You’re going home to sleep, I got it from here.” When Ace looked back he was met with a sleep walking Ash. “Okay that’s just weird.”

Rainbow Dash:

I was flying around enjoying my day off when I saw something that was defiantly out of place. I saw a red mare with a black mane. She looked rather lost, and seeing a mare with those colors was very bizarre. The only other pony I’ve seen like that was Ashura. I flew down to her and she was very startled when I landed near her. “Hello, I haven’t seen you here before.”

“…” She looked away from me. The only thing that she was able to do was breath and that was starting to quicken.

“Are you alright?” I asked trying to look her in the eye.

“Just leave.” She said quietly, I was taken back, I wasn’t expecting her to say that. I turned away and took off in the sky. She looked very sad, but I left her be. Not much I can do if somepony doesn’t want to talk. I kept flying for a while until I spotted someone familiar. Funny, usually when I have afternoons off I feel like doing some tricks or being alone and taking a nap.

“Hey Moon!” I said landing next to her. She looked at me with a warm smile.

“Hey Dashie, How are you feeling?” Moon said sitting up. She had been laying on the grass probably enjoying the nice day. Her coat was pale, as white as snow. Her eyes were the same color as mine and her mane was like mine but the colors were more of a neon rainbow. The past events dealing with my father’s sider came back to me. “Something on your mind Dashie?”

“I’m just remembering what happened. Still replay the events through my mind every once in a while. I remember it clearly.” I sighed, “What is wrong with me?”

“Dashie, it was an event that changed your life. It’s a traumatic experience, there are probably more things you have to face.” Moon said laying back and closing her eyes. “I do not think anything is wrong with you.”

“What is it I’m supposed to face?” She looked at me with confusion. I felt a little stupid, she may have been my Sider but she is her own pony now. I remembered a moment Moon and I had, if it wasn’t for her I probably wouldn’t have been able to face my past. “I think I just remembered something I have to deal with.”

“Good, that is very good.” Moon said with a smile, I said goodbye to her and took off into the air. I had to see Fluttershy. There was something I had to tell her.

Fluttershy:

“You killed them!”

“I didn’t mean too, please I’m sorry!” The entire world was spinning around me. I looked at all of my little critter friends that I killed. All their mangled bodies lay about.

“Why did you kill me Fluttershy?” Twilight asked, her eyes were missing. All that was left were black bottomless holes that stared back at me. Blood was still dripping from the gaping holes that were her eyes and the large slash across her neck. She inched closer to me.

“Why did you kill me Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash asked, her wings were broken beyond any medical help, her neck was broken and twisted. She inched closer to me as well. Two of my friends dead, and I killed them.

“You’re a murderer Fluttershy!”

“No, it wasn’t me!” It was me, I remember the event vividly. I forced Twilight to the ground and gouged her eyes out. I heard her scream, right before I slit her throat. Rainbow Dash tried to flee, breaking her wings was the best way to keep her grounded. I just couldn’t help myself from breaking her neck.

“Fluttershy? Please tell us why.” Both of them said in a ghostly moan. I wanted to images out of my head, me murdering my friends. I wanted them to leave, but no matter how hard I tried. They just wouldn’t leave. I couldn’t help but relive those event in my head.

“Fluttershy?” I heard Rainbow Dash ask, I closed my eyes. I wasn’t able to look at what I did to her. “Fluttershy are you okay?” I heard her ask as she shook me. I refused to open my eyes, I was afraid to see those gaping holes stare at me. “Would you open your eyes already?”

I opened my eyes from the panic I felt being shook even more by Rainbow Dash. To my surprise there was no zombie like Rainbow coming after me. When she stopped shaking me I looked around and all the images I saw were gone. “Oh my.”

“Are you okay Fluttershy?” Rainbow asked with much concern. I shook my head feeling a little overwhelmed. I looked into my friend’s eyes and gave her a big smile.

“I’m fine, I guess I was just sleep walking.” I said trying to shake the images from my mind. They were still fresh in my head.

“That must have been some dream you were having.” The feeling I got was something I never felt, something was seriously wrong. I knew that, but I refused to tell my friend who was very concerned about me. It shames me to think, maybe I could have stopped what happened.

“Yeah, tell me about it.” I sighed pushing the images out of my head. I felt different, but I tried to act like nothing was wrong.

“Fluttershy I have to tell you something.” This took me a shock, I was expecting question about how I had been acting or something along the lines. But Rainbow Dash was avoiding my stare. Something was bothering her, and I think it had to deal with me.

“What is it Rainbow?” I asked my friend. She sat down on the couch and I joined her. She finally looked me in the eyes. “Rainbow Dash?”

“I was a bully.” I was majorly confused now.

“You’re not a bully, you may be a little hard around the edges. But that doesn’t make you a bully.” I said offering her a warm smile. It wasn’t returned, all she did was look away, her mane now covering her eyes.

“I bullied other ponies when we were in school. Do you remember Rain Blight?” Rainbow Dash said looking at me with tears in her eyes.

“The colt who…died?” I said hardly, it was a major event that happened at our school. It stopped others picking on each other majorly. I wasn’t bullied as much after Rain Blight’s death.

“He committed suicide because of me. I didn’t mean…I don’t….I just felt defenseless. I didn’t want to be pushed around, I had to be strong.” Everything that Dash had said when through my ears and circled in my head. I never imagined Rainbow Dash who had stood up for me and countless others had been a bully.

“Rainbow…” I wasn’t sure what to say. It just made little sense that Rainbow would pick on another pony.

“My father abandoned me, all I had was my pride to be strong. I had to be strong, it was the last thing he told me before he left. At the time I didn’t know why he left, and I felt so angry. When I was bulled, and Blue…” My birdie Blue who was killed. The memory of that day came flooding back. “I never wanted to feel like that again, ever.”

“You stood up for so many others, including me!” I said with tears in my eyes. This was defiantly not easy to hear, especially not to tell. This was a large burden Rainbow Dash had been carrying. “Rain Blight is the reason, isn’t he?”

“I regret it Fluttershy, I wish I met all of you so much sooner. I wouldn’t have done what I did. He was gay, back then it was an easy target. I’m so sorry Fluttershy.” Both of us were crying by now. I embraced her in a hug, she hugged me back. “I swore on that day I would never pick on another pony no matter what!”

“It’s okay Rainbow Dash, we all make mistakes when we are young.” She continued to sob in my embrace. Rainbow Dash crying, it was very unusual. But everypony cried every now and then, and we all have things that we carry.

“I just wish I could tell him how sorry I am.” Rainbow said her sobbing starting to stop. I gave her a sincere hug.

“That bitch will never know peace.” I heard someone chuckle. Sitting on the floor behind Rainbow Dash was a black eyed Rain Blight. He offered me a crooked grin. I froze up, my entire body going cold. My spin was tingling, and every hair on my body was standing on end.

“Fluttershy are you okay?” Rainbow asked looking at me with concern. I pointed in Rain’s direction and the same effect happened to Rainbow that happened to me.

“No! Those eyes!” Rainbow said in a panic.