The Kindness

UNACCEPTABLE

I simply do not understand. This...pony is an... an alternate Estacado? This cannot stand. This is unacceptable.

I will not stand for this. This cannot be.

Wait. What am I doing? Denial? ME?

My host is a pegasus. A little... yellow... pegasus. The likes of which I haven't seen before. The last pegasus I saw was definitely more horse-like. And extinct.

This one is more alike a toy. It's yellow... and pink. A little plush toy that a child would have. Only this one is real, and I am now stuck in it.

I can't leave. I'm stranded. That wretched Angelus burned away most of my strength, I had to hide my power in this host, and the leap to escape hell consumed the rest. I have to focus. Get us...eugh

Get us into the cottage. A cottage. Like from a fairytale.

I feel sick.

Angel was worried out of his little mind.
Fluttershy hadnt come inside yet. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue, Fluttershy would often become a worried or remember something and spend the next 20 minutes triple checking over the animals again.

But today hadn’t been a normal day.

This morning Angel had woken up to Fluttershy writhing in bed. She had woken up soon after, looking worn and disheveled. Even though she reassured him that she was fine, something had seemed... off. He couldn’t exactly place what it was, because she wasn't acting strange, she just seemed odd. To put his mind at ease, he just chalked it up to whatever bizarre antics she and her friends were getting involved in. Or it was Discord pretending to be Fluttershy. Again. That glorified jigsaw puzzle was going to get it one day. Angel would make sure of it.

The day progressed otherwise normally, with Fluttershy going out to town to see Twilight Sparkle and run a few errands. She later got home and began her usual schedule of fussing over every animal within a 5-mile radius of her cottage, doting over their every need while she was visibly struggling. As time went on however, she seemed to tire out far quicker than usual. She was sweating like she was working in the middle of summer and as much as he just wanted to convince himself that she was fine and it was just whatever madness she had gotten herself roped into, something in the back of his head insisted otherwise. But she continuously reassured him and the animals that she felt fine and must've simply been working too hard.

'Bunny-crap' Angel thought to himself, remembering what she had been claiming all day. That was it, he was putting his foot down. He'd get a few other animals to help make dinner and make her lay down for the rest of the week. He hopped his way to the front door and saw the yellow pegasus, tentacles and all.

Hold on a second. That's not right. That's definitely not normal. That must've been what the problem was. He could clearly see the issue from here, and it concerned him greatly.

'Hey, ya know what sounds good right about now? Hiding under the furniture. Lets go with that.' Thought Angel to himself as he dove under the sofa.

Angel was by no means dumb. He knew his limits and his limits most likely included tentacles with what looked like blades and teeth on them. He peeked out from under the sofa hoping to see that Fluttershy okay, and that he was imagining things. What he saw however, was that she was actually unconcious. He started to go over his options at this point. He could run for help but locks on the windows and back doors were tricky, and he could open them with difficulty, but he didn’t want to chance that thing on Fluttershy’s back hearing him. 'Thanks alot, Mr.Raccoon' Angel thought, such locks being due to several animals that were used to scavenging well... scavenging in her house at night. He could make a run for it through the front do- Aaaand it had stopped dragging Fluttershy right in front of the door. That it had just shut AND locked. Fantastic. As he thought of bolting along the everfree border, he quickly realized what a silly idea it would be, for as tough as he was, he was still just a little bunny. And sometimes, he really hated that.

He turned again, to look back at the thing on Fluttershy's back. Or rather, where it had been. The vile thing had disappeared entirely. 'What' The bunny deadpanned. He cautiously made his way from out under the sofa and slowly made his way up to Fluttershy. She looked completely exhausted, and Angel briefly went over his options once more. He couldn’t really DO anything. All the other animals were outside and the few inside he knew of were probably asleep or scared out of their wits, not that he could blame them, and so it was that he could not get help moving her. With a little bunny sigh, he hopped to a nearby closet and managed to pull down blanket that Fluttershy kept around for emergencies. He brought it over to Fluttershy and, with a good deal of difficulty, tried to drape it over her. Whatever this was, it was going to have to wait until morning when most of the Everfree's predators weren't liable to be on the hunt.

Angel hopped up onto the sofa, and curling up on one of the cushions, he wished there was more he could do. At the end of the day however, he was stuck. He was just a little bunny after all.

Fluttershy opened her groggy eyes for a moment, as she came to. She was completely exhausted and either from a lack of caring or realization that she was on the floor, She tried to go back to sleep.

"Wake up, Flutt-" The Darkness said, sighing in disbelief of the ridiculous name his current host had before finishing "Fluttershy".

I am definitely going to be sick.

This had managed to wake Fluttershy up completely, while simultaneously scaring the evergreen daylights out of her.
She shot upright with an ever-adorable 'Eep!' as the blanket that was covering her slid off. "W-what- err wh-whos there?" She said, terrified. Whatever it was that had spoken sounded absolutely horrifying, she thought.
"As it should be".

Fluttershy's eyes went wide, because whatever it was, was right behind her! She ran into the kitchen and dove under the table, trying to see whatever it was that was behind her, but she didn’t see anything. She could hardly see at all as she had not the bravado to so much as move a hoof to brush her mane away from her eyes.

Mike Patton I MEAN The Darkness was tired of this. The events from the past few weeks had worn his patience thin and strung his temper high. "Turn around, you insipid creature." the Darkness growled. Fluttershy was petrified at the contempt and anger in its voice. Shaking, she slowly turned her head around to look behind her and was greeted by the absolutely horrifying sight of a snake-like head with teeth. Rows of sharp, needle-like teeth. Her eyes sank down along its snake-like body, and to her horror, she discovered the demonic thing was coming out of her back.

Fluttershy immediately fainted once more.

The Darkness wasn't even angry anymore. He had lost the capacity for anger at this stage. His rage had simply come full circle and allowed him to put things into perspective. Of course the little Pegasus had fainted at the very sight of him. He was most likely the most terrifying thing she'd ever seen! He needed her co-operation if he was going to regain enough strength to leave this horrid dimension, and for that he was going to have to sink to a level he hadn't sunk to in millennia.

He was going to have to be nice and understanding.

He shuddered, because as much as he hated the notion of being friendly to beings lesser than him, it was often a useful way to manipulate people. This ought to be easy. He'd just have to explain why he was here, allowing for a few omissions of course, get her to stay out of the sunlight for a few days and he'd be gone before either of them knew it.
Unfortunately, his circular-rage-induced clarity wasn't quite enough to remind him of his need to consume the hearts of the evil. A rather important point that would surely complicate the situation.

Unbeknownst to him, a little rabbit had been woken up from the commotion, and had snuck out, bolting straight to the Ponyville library.