Flutterborn

A pale yellow Pegasus with long, beautiful pink hair and big baby blue eyes was walking through Ponyville, a spring in her step until she heard the ponies around her screaming at something. She turned around and saw something flying towards her at top-speeds, almost looking like some sort of an asteroid. She looked in astonishment as it flew over her head and heard a crash in the direction she was heading… her home. “Oh my goodness… Angel!” she said in fear as she started running home to her little cottage on the outskirts of town, her saddle-bag full of groceries resting over her haunches and hiding her butterfly cutie mark.

When she made it to her cottage, she ran to the back, out near the flower fields. In the middle of the fields was a large, deep crater. Fluttershy saw the deep chasm and looked down into it cautiously, shivering in fear, “He-Hello? Is a-a-anyone d-d-d-down there?” She said, stuttering at each word she uttered. Just when she was about to look deeper inside, a pitch-black, blood-soaked claw stabbed into the ground in front of her, making her jump in fright and make a break for her house and locked the door, hiding under her bed.

A few minutes later, there was a loud knocking on her front door, scaring her more than the claw did as she started to whimper in fear. Then, there was the sound of a door opening, closing and small feet hopping up the stairs to her room, a small squeaking sound coming from outside of her hiding place, and she knew exactly who it was… “Angel?” She poked her head out to see Angel Bunny in a panic, pointing downstairs as if trying to tell her something. “What is it Angel?” Fluttershy asked in confusion as the tiny rabbit face-pawed and began down the stairs, waving his arm as if telling her to follow.

Fluttershy knew what he was trying to tell her and followed him down the stairs and to the front door. She looked down at him confusedly and then at the door, Angel signaling for her to open the door. Fluttershy looked at him with frightened eyes and shook her head quickly, thinking that whatever that claw belonged to was outside her door. Angel placed a reassuring paw on her hoof and Fluttershy sighed, hesitantly reaching her other hoof to the doorknob and slowly turning it, making it open as she looked outside and saw a tall jet-black Pegasus lying on her doorstep, his body cut up and bleeding.

She gasped at the sight and looked to Angel, “This is what you wanted to show me?” Angel nodded at Fluttershy, surprising her. She looked back to the injured stallion at her door and thought, ‘The hospital is already closed… And the clinic closed quite a while ago too...” She sighed and looked at Angel with a serious expression, “Angel, go fill the bathtub and I’ll need bandages and alcohol too.” Angel smiled and saluted. He liked this side of his owner very much, she wasn’t scared and she knew how to take charge. He hopped off to do as his owner said as Fluttershy placed a hoof up to her muzzle and whistled, a bear coming into the room. Fluttershy pointed at the stallion and looked at the bear with the same look, “Pick this pony up and take him to the bathroom.” The bear nodded and saluted, picking up the bleeding pony and running up the stairs to the bathroom.

She saw the blood on the floor and shuddered slightly as she whistled again, four raccoons coming into the room as she pointed at the blood, “Get the mops and clean the blood off the floor please, I have to tend to something.” She said in the same serious tone and walking up the stairs as the raccoons saluted and ran to go get the buckets and mops. Upstairs in the bathroom, she saw the bear and Angel standing at the door and she smiled sweetly at them, “I can take it from here you two, thank you very much. Go help the raccoons clean up the blood please.” They nodded and ran past her to go help the raccoons as they were told while Fluttershy grabbed a washcloth from her closet and started wiping down the black Pegasus with tender and careful motions, wiping the blood from his cuts, she started on his hind-legs and around his cutie mark, a small blush on her cheeks. She moved up to his stomach and chest which were partially muscled. Then she got to his fore-legs and then, to his neck and face. She noted that he looked peaceful, although she could tell he was in a critical state.

She finished washing him down and grabbed the alcohol Angel got for her, putting some on the washcloth and blotching it onto the wounds, he groaned and growled a little louder on every time she touched him with her alcohol-soaked cloth. She finished with the alcohol and then began to wrap the bandages around his legs, chest, stomach, and even some on his face, but made sure he could still breath, if he was breathing at all, which was the one thing she overlooked to do. She used all the strength she could mhster and carried the bandaged pony to her room and placed him gently on the bed as she laid her head softly on his chest, listening for a heartbeat, and to her relief, his heart was slowly but surely beating.
Fluttershy sighed happily, knowing that the stallion was still alive and carefully crawled under the covers next to the him, blushing like mad as she slowly let sleep take her.

The next morning, her baby blue eyes fluttered open to the sound of loud snoring, a happy look in her eye as she looked next to her and saw that the stallion was now breathing at a normal pace. She stood out of bed slowly and trotted downstairs to her kitchen to make him something to eat. About 10 or 15 minutes, upstairs in her room, the Pegasus in question woke up slowly as he tried to sit up in bed, but cringed at the pain that surged through his body as he fell back down. He looked around through the eye that wasn’t bandaged and wondered to himself, “Where… Where am I?” He said in a menacing tone, his voice dark but still that of a normal Pegasus teen.

Fluttershy walked back up the stairs with a tray with vegetable soup and a few slices of toast. She had a joyful but also bashful look on her face as she walked in, placing the tray on the empty nightstand on the bedside. “Good morning… Are you feeling okay?” She asked hopefully as the stallion growled and tried to move away, but the pain he felt from the cuts and lack of strength kept him in place. “Who are you… And where the hell am I…?” he said through gritted teeth in a growly and pained voice. The first thing she noticed was his blood red, reptilian eye, as if he was trying to stare into her soul… and burn it to cinders. And then there was his pointed teeth that reminded her of King Sombra. Also, the bloody bandages all over his body didn’t help his appearance at all, but it reminded her that it was time for her to change them.

She smiled gently at him and spoke in her usual shy and barely audible voice, “Well... Um… I’m Fluttershy, and th-this is my c-cottage…” the stallion looked at her as if she had a mental disability and sighed shaking his head. “Great…” he tried to stand but the pain and now Fluttershy kept him from doing so, “I’m sorry, but you need to refrain from moving, your injuries will get worse than they are.” The Pegasus looked at the bandages all over his body and growled in anger as he laid back down, Fluttershy slowly pushing him back onto the soft pillow. As sparkling blue eyes met crimson blood red, Fluttershy blushed and did her usual ‘Eep’ noise, moving backwards in embarrassment and leaving the black Pegasus confused and a little agitated. ‘I just had to crash at the door of a pitiful Pegasus…’ He thought as he rolled his eyes.

Fluttershy got up from her spot on the floor, a blush on her cheeks as she looked at the Pegasus again, “So um… Wh-What might y-y-your name be?” He sighed and closed his eye and turned away from her as he spoke, “Jet Stream… Not that it matters to you.” Fluttershy donned a sad expression as he looked at him, “Well… If it didn’t matter to me… then why would I have asked?” Jet growled, knowing she was right but not wanting to accept it. She then moved closer to him shyly and smiled as sweetly as she could to hide her embarrassment, “Um… I-If you don’t mind… It’s time to cha-change your b-bandages…” Jet sighed and nodded, “Go ahead and get it over with…” she nodded and left, coming back with a few rolls of bandages, a bottle of alcohol and a washcloth.

She moved closer, placing the items so they’re out of the way but still within reach. She then cautiously unraveled the bandages, starting from his hind-legs and working her way up. He had the smallest tinge of maroon on his cheeks watching her take off the wraps. She soon came to his head and took off the bandages that hid his other eye from her as she gasped at the sight of three claw-like scars going over his eye-lid as he opened it, finally being able to see her fully. He blinked his eye a few more times so it would re-adjust to the light in the room, “Finally…” He groaned in relief that he could move his limbs freely, but the pain was still evident.

She wet the cloth with alcohol, “I’m sorry, this might sting a little…” she warned as she started to wipe the alcohol soaked rag over the healing scars once again, his growls and groans of pain making her feel as if she was doing something wrong. He closed one of his eyes in pain and clenched his teeth, forcing himself not to scream as she continued. She then wiped the rag across his face, making him roar in pain , alerting Angel as he and the bear from before ran up the stairs, the bear holding Jet down as she continued, “I’m sorry, I’m so very sorry!” She said frightened and saddened that she was bringing her ‘patient’ pain.

When she finished, she noticed that his scars started to smoke and heal as if they were never there, except for the one scar over his eye, which surprised Angel, the bear and herself beyond words. The Pegasus then growled at the bear that held him and stared into his eyes, scaring the poor thing to death as it ran down the stairs, whimpering like a beaten dog. Jet smirked in a devilish way and got out of the bed, walking past Fluttershy but not before saying, “I didn’t need your help… But thanks…” He walked out of the cottage and soon stood on his hind-legs.

His body grew scales and shed the fur from his body, his tail getting bigger and growing large spikes that trailed from the bottom of his now scaly tail to the top of his head, the last one arching down over his left eye as if it was a bang. His large black wings grew in size and length, the feathers turning into scales and spines sprouting from them. His hooves turned to clawed hands and feet, the sound of bones morphing and cracking as he transformed could be heard by any within earshot.

He smirked demonically and chuckled, raising his powerful wings and flapping them once, blasting off the ground as the strong gust shattered the windows of the tiny cottage and scared Fluttershy back under her bed. After a few minutes she moved to the front door and looked up into the sky, seeing her use-to-be patient flying away as she said in astonishment, “… I hope he doesn’t get into trouble…”
She didn’t know the half of it…