The Night Shy

Luna got up earlier than Fluttershy, obviously. She lowered the moon and Celestia raised the sun to signify the morning. Soon, all of Equestria will be waking up. The two sisters stood side by side staring out a window down at the country they owned and commanded in front of them. Of course on this side of the castle, they couldn't see Ponyville or Trottingham.

"Celestia, I have a question for you." Luna asked.

"Yes Luna?" Celestia responded.

"I was wondering if I could make somepony a princess."

"Depends."

"On?"

"Who is this somepony?"

"Fluttershy."

"That doesn't surprise me."

"Well, can I? You know she would make a perfect princess. She never lies and she does stuff out of the goodness of her heart. She has pure intentions."

"I shall think about it sister."

"Thank you."

The two sisters resumed looking at the landscape. The perfect plains, the majestic mountains, the luscious lakes, the superb scenery, and so on. They sat and stared, every once in a while a pegasus would fly by and kick a cloud or move one or something. They could see everything that happened, a little blurred and too far to see in detail, but they could still see what happened. Oh, whats happening right there? Oh, oh dear sweet Celestia, why? Oh no, that is NOT something you should do in public!

"Morning Luna, morning Celestia." came a familiar sweet feminine voice from behind the monarchs.

"Morning Fluttershy." the two alicorns said in unison.

"How are you today?" she asked as she went up to the window and looked at the country.

"Good, we're just enjoying the view." Luna answered.

Fluttershy looked down at the scene of, what I COULD say, but WON'T and made a look of disgust.

"Just ignore it. Look up." Luna said without even glancing at the pegasus or what she was witnessing.

"Ok." Fluttershy tried to look up, but she just couldn't take her eyes off of the mare and stallion. They both looked so familiar. Like she knew them well and haven't seen them for a while, or she didn't know them well and just met them a few days ago. Well, she knew the stallion a little better, but she still knew them both.

"Fluttershy, you can look up, I know you can."

Fluttershy tried harder, and eventually looked away from the scene.

"Well, I should probably go home and check on my animals."

"All right Fluttershy. We'll see you later." Celestia said.

"Call me." Luna said.

"Bye." all three mares said as Fluttershy left the castle.

Fluttershy walked home. She walked, and walked, and walked, and walked. Eventually, she got to Twilight's tree, she stopped and talked to her best friend.

"Oh hello Fluttershy." the lavender alicorn said at her friend's unexpected arrival.

"Hello Twilight." Fluttershy said.

"Ahem." A little purple dragon said.

"And hello to you too Spike." Fluttershy said as she rubbed Spike's head.

"Where have you been?" Twilight asked.

"I was at the castle."

"What, all day yesterday?"

"Yes."

"No way."

"Yeah."

"Why? The princesses don't even let me do that!"

"Well, its kind of secret."

"Oh all right. So, why don't you come in? I just got some fresh apple juice."

"Sure."

"You can sit anywhere, I'll be right back." Twilight disappeared into the kitchen.

Fluttershy sat on the nearest chair and waited.

When she returned, Twilight gave Fluttershy a glass of ice gold apple cider.

The two best friends sat and talked for a while. They drank their cider and chatted.

"So, what did you do in the castle?"

"Oh, nothing you'd find interesting." Fluttershy lied. She lied? What is this world coming to?!?!

"Oh, all right, why did you go back anyways?"

"I wanted to ask Luna for some advice."

"On what?"

"On how to ask somepony out, and get them to say yes."

"Oh, well you know you could've come and ask me right?"

"What do you know about asking somepony out? You've been single your whole life, and your like what, 14?"

"So?"

"So you wouldn't really know how to get them to say yes."

"Ehh good point."

"So, how have you been Twilight?"

"Good, business at the library has been slow, and I've been practicing my flying, wings are a bit sore."

"I see, how good are you?"

"Not very."

"Would you mind teaching me? Your skill is much better than mine." Well, its not really a lie. Fluttershy is pretty bad at flying.

"Uhh, sure I guess."

Fluttershy downed the rest of her cider. "Well, I should probably get going, the animals are probably hungry."

"Bye Fluttershy." Twilight said, waving as her friend left.

"Bye Twilight." Fluttershy responded, waving back.

Fluttershy headed back to her cottage. On her way there, she bumped into Applejack.

"Why hai there Fluttershy. How ya doing Sugar cube?"

"Hi Applejack, I'm doing good, just heading home to feed my animals."

"Would ya mind helping me? This tree right here isn't dropping the apples no matter how many times ah buck it."

"Oh, sure." Fluttershy flew up and grabbed as many apples as she could, she flew back down and carefully set them in the cart. She repeated this until the whole tree was apple-less and the cart was nearly full.

"Thank ya sugar cube." Applejack said as she pushed the cart back to the farm. "See ya later."

"Bye Applejack." Fluttershy said as she set home, again. She was stopped by Rarity, who had something for her to do. Wow, some bad luck for her huh? What are the odds that three of her five main friends wanted her?

"Oh hello Fluttershy darling. Would you help me out real quick please?" Rarity asked.

"What do you need?" Fluttershy answered, in a question.

"Well, all of my mannequins are land ponies, and one of my customers needs a dress, and shes a pegasus, so I was wondering if you'd like to model what I have with the dress so far."

"Oh, sure."

"Oh good, here, put this on." Rarity said pushing a short red dress into Fluttershy's arms.

Fluttershy put on the dress, the wind holes were a little small, so she had trouble sticking her wings out.

"The wing holes are a little small." Fluttershy said after she got her wings through.

"All right, here, does that work better?" Rarity asked quickly cutting the holes bigger.

"Yes, perfect. Oh, and its a little drafty."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, there needs to be more material down below, I could feel a draft before, but it actually got more noticeable when I put on the dress."

"Oh, well, this customer is used to wearing dresses even worse than this one."

"Oh all right."

Just then, a random background pony stallion walked by and whistled at Fluttershy.

"Dayum girl. Show me dat ass some more!" the unknown pegasus said.

Fluttershy immediately turned around blushing so he couldn't see her butt anymore.

"I don't like this dress Rarity." Fluttershy said taking it off and passed it back to the unicorn.

"Well good, its not for you anyways."

Fluttershy ran away quickly trying to get away from the unknown stallion who took chase. Rarity tackled him for her friend.

"Bye Fluttershy, and you owe me one!" rarity shouted to the fading yellow pegasus.

Fluttershy kept running, she never even turned around to see if she was still being followed. Eventually, she bumped into Rainbow Dash.

"Hey Fluttershy. I need your help!" the blue show off pegasus said.

"What is it Rainbow Dash?" the quiet yellow pegasus asked.

"See that hawk? Shes kind of pissed at me, can you calm her down?"

"Sure." then she flew up and started talking to the bird.

"So, is she cool yet?"

"She says shes mad, she isn't a hawk, shes a falcon."

"What do I have to do to make her like me? This is in the middle of my training ground, er, sky, and she won't let me pass."

"She just wants you to call her by the correct name."

"Oh, I'm sorry misses falcon."

"Miss."

"What?"

"Shes single."

"Fine, I'm sorry MISS falcon."

The falcon sat in her nest and started preening.

"So, am I good to fly?"

"Yes." Fluttershy answered as she landed.

"Thank you Flutter. See you around." Then the blue winged pony disappeared into the sky doing some flying practice.

Fluttershy continued on her way home. Then she was tackled by a pink flash.

"Hey Fluttershy want to help me?"

"AWW HAAAAIL NAW!" Fluttershy said pushing the pink land pony off of her chest and headed home again.

She actually got home this time. No more interruptions after Pinkie Pie thank Celestia. The door opened the second she arrived. Fluttershy looked down to see a white rabbit staring up at her.

"Oh hello Angel Bunny, how are you doing?"

Angel made a series of paw motions, that made no sense to me, but somehow made sense to Fluttershy.

"So I don't have to feed the animals?"

Angel shook his head.

"You fed them?"

Angel nodded.

"Oh good, its really late and I'm very tired."

Angel pointed at the bed in the corner.

"Oh Angel, you even fluffed the pillows and washed the blankets for me. Thank you." Fluttershy picked up Angel and hugged him. The bunny tried to push away the pegasus, obviously not liking the cuddle.

"Here's a carrot." Fluttershy said getting a large carrot down from the cupboards and giving it to Angel who began devouring it. Fluttershy went up to her bed and fell sleep instantly. She had a long dreamless sleep. It was roughly 10 at night when she fell asleep. She slept and slept, and woke up just before noon. When she woke up, her pillow wasn't where it normally was. It wasn't even on her bed. She looked around, and it was floating a few feet away. She grabbed it and put it back on her bed. Wait, it was floating?! Fluttershy quickly looked around her two roomed house. She didn't see anypony else. She was tempted to fall asleep again, she had a killer headache. Fluttershy layed her head down, and the pillow was gone, floating in the same place, surrounded by a very light orange. Wait, a light orange? Nopony in Equestria had that color magic, so something was wrong. She looked around, but decided she had to use the bathroom. So she used it.

Fluttershy decided she should wash her face. She was awfully tired after yesterday, so she probably sweated a lot. Fluttershy turned on the faucet and cupped her hooves, she caught a bunch of water and splashed it in her face. Then she looked at the mirror while her face was dripping. What the hay? She had a horn! Fluttershy panicked, she assumed she was dreaming, so she pinched her arm. It hurt, she was NOT dreaming. Maybe it was just some water in her eyes playing a trick on her. So she splashed again and waited longer to dry. She looked again. The horn was still there. Fluttershy checked herself over, still had wings, they were a little bigger than before, and she definitely had a horn. She was an alicorn.