Meadow Weave

This is Fluttershy here to tell you a story about Meadow Weave.

It was a great day in all of Equestria, which rarely ever happens. Pegasus were flying all over, Unicorns magicing everywhere, and Earth ponies being awesome. Everything was going fantastic until she arrived. Her name was Meadow Weave, and she LOVED plants. She was actually kinda cute at first, being a smaller-than-usual Unicorn. She would help ponies with their gardening and weeding, and she would help grow trees where they wanted them, and she would pretty much make everything that had to do with plants look incredible. Everypony loved her, and she loved them back. At least we thought she did. All of us thought that her magic was the only thing helping her grow her plants, and at the time it seemed that way. Here in Ponyville, we all notice when a pony goes missing, or if something terrible happens we all know right away. At first it didn’t seem too bad, only one pegasus had gone missing. Not too bad right? She probably just went on vacation honestly. Ponies seem to do that a lot when they have magic.

Anyway, Meadow Weave was just coming to my house to help me grow some more trees for my birdy friends. I heard that she was just the best at making them, and I saw it myself once, so I thought, why not? I found her at Sugar Cube Corner eating a cupcake. I got her attention, brought her to my cottage, and asked her to grow me some trees. I asked her how much it would cost and she told me she would do it for free because she was my friend. That was great because I didn’t have any bits anyway. She told me she needed to be alone to do this, and then politely asked me to leave her alone for about 2 and a half hours. I said “Alright I’ll probably be with Rainbow and the rest of them finding something to fix.” I left and exactly 2 and a half hours later I came back. She was still there growing trees so I decided to see how she did it. It seemed normal at first but got weird quickly. She started with putting a sapling in the ground, which is what I would have expected. She poured water on it next, and then began covering it with dirt. This was normal and all but about halfway through covering it she stopped, looked around to see if anypony was watching, and then opened her bag. I hadn’t noticed a bag before, but I obviously saw it then. It was sagging and dripping with what looked like Pinkie’s Red Party Punch.

After pulling out a small baggie with the party punch in it, she poked a hole in it with a pin, and began pouring it all over the dirt. This seemed pretty weird, I knew Pinkie’s punch was good, but not good enough to grow a tree.. She put the empty baggie back in her bag and then pulled out what looked like meat. Nopony ever ate meat in Equestria. Especially not me! Just the sight of the meat put me into a rage, kinda like when I was at the Grand Galloping Gala. I jumped up and charged her! I don’t know what came over me but seeing that was terrible. I began beating her, punching her, biting her, everything I could to stop her from hurting anymore animals. After knocking her unconscious I noticed that the meat was just infact a smashed cupcake from Pinkie’s place. I looked in horror and shock, not completely realizing what I had done. It wasn’t until she began coughing and sputtering, minutes later that I realized. I had to tell her she tripped or something, right? No I couldn’t do that. I had to tell her the truth. When she woke up, I told her what had happened. She began to say something extremely harsh, I could tell, but she stopped herself. She looked up at me with this normally cute face, except this time it was swollen and she was smiling at me with this look and I didn’t know how to react. It was one of the scariest smiles I have ever seen, right behind Pinkie’s Pinkamena smile.

She then said that it was alright, and that she would forgive me, but they had to come up with some story to convince the other ponies that it wasn’t me. I didn’t totally agree with the idea at first, but then I remembered, I’m only supposed to be kind, not honest. That was AJ’s job. I turned to her and squeaked my little squeak and we went out telling them our story. We told them that while she was making my trees she tripped and fell into the bunny village and was knocked unconscious. I couldn’t believe my cute little ears! Everypony was falling for this total lie! Everypony but Dashie. She just gave me this little look, like she knew something was up. I had to tell her the truth. She’s Dashie! Besides, it was only one pony anyway…

So Meadow went her way and I went mine. On my walk home Rarity came to stop me, crying, claiming something had happened to Sweetie Belle! I looked at her and asked what was wrong with Sweetie. She tried to speak, but instead all that came out was a choked sob. She couldn’t talk so she just made me follow her to wherever it was she was taking me. As soon as we entered Rarity’s home, I saw it. Strung up all around was weird pink tubes. They looked extremely fleshy, and were also dripping with Pinkie’s Red Party Punch. The scene was terrible. Cloth was torn and shredded, all of Rarity’s gems had been crushed, and punch was splattered everywhere. I turned to Rarity and asked her, ‘That is Pinkies Punch right?’
Rarity couldn’t bare to look any longer and closed her eyes as she led me to where the pink tubes were going. We slowly climbed the now slippery steps into Sweetie’s room. Inside was the most grotesque thing I had ever seen. It sickened me, and I turned away and began to sob, but then I threw up. I continued to sob for a couple seconds longer, but then I turned to look again. In the middle of the room Sweetie Belle was suspended by wire, and the pink tubes followed. Her horn had been ripped from its socket. From her Chest down to her Crotch was a big long slice. The skin was peeled back and nailed to the sides of her body to keep it open. Blood was spilling all over out of her body. Her eyes were ground and shoved into her skull. Her teeth were grinded and left as a powder in her mouth. Her tongue was cut out and on the floor. Her heart was hanging out of the cut. What I once thought were pink tubes were actually her intestines hung like streamers. On the middle of the wall written in blood were these words: “Do You Like Your Trees?”

I just stood there, stunned into silence. Rarity had already gone to get other ponies help. I slowly stood up, opened the window, and flew out. I knew exactly who had done this, but I had no proof. I had to deal with her myself. I flew to my house to look for clues as to Meadow Weave’s whereabouts. I dug under the newly grown tree, the one I saw her pour the liquid into. Under the tree was something I couldn’t explain, something I still can’t explain. Under the tree, through the roots to the very middle was a beating heart and a some poor pony’s horn. Magic was being released from the horn into the heart, which was beating blood into the tree. After looking closer I saw that the tree was indeed growing every second. it was getting a tiny bit bigger, maybe a half a centimeter a minute.

I stood up, realizing then that all the newly planted trees were connected to this heart and horn. I had no idea how she did it, but she had these trees living off of blood and magic. I realized then and there, I never wanted to be a tree. I hated her. I hated her so much. I had to find her before she hurt another pony. I looked all over for her, until I got news from Angel that her friends had seen a small Unicorn helping other ponies to grow things in Manehatten. I flew there as fast as I could, but got there only to late. I had to find the first person to ask for trees to be grown. After I found him, he told me he asked a Unicorn by the name of Meadow Weave to help grow some trees for his new hotel. I asked him if I could have a look at these trees and he didn’t object. He wanted to do all he could to help search for this Unicorn Killer. I dug under the tree and, can you guess what I found. I found a horn, the exact size of Sweetie Belle’s. It was the same color and was using the same color of magic to power the heart and tree. The only question I had was where she got the heart. She only killed Sweetie and one other pony in Ponyville, and she left Sweetie’s heart hanging by threads of flesh. She used the other Unicorn’s heart to grow my trees, so I had figured she must have used a heart of an old victim.

I heard word of a small Unicorn traveling the road to Canterlot. Twilight sent a letter to me, don’t know how she did it but she did, using spike. All it said was in hasty scribbling that the princess had called all of them to Canterlot Castle for a meeting with the Princesses Celestia, Cadence, and Luna. I told her that I would be there soon and that Meadow Weave was almost there, so we needed to get there soon. It took me about 5 ½ hours to get to Canterlot. When I got there I could tell something was going to be wrong, I didn’t need any Pinkie sense to tell me that. I worked up my courage, and walked to the front gates. I knocked once, and the gates fell over, showing me the chaos behind.

As I looked around all the building were in flames, all the windows broken, the doors bashed in. Foals, Mares, Fillies, and Colts all dead. All the same way. They were hung upside down from wooden posts, long cuts along their stomachs, just like Sweetie Belle. Every intestine was removed and nowhere to be seen. I wandered through Canterlot looking for a way to Canterlot Castle. As I neared it I could hear some sort of strange sound coming from the Castle. It was like metal clashing on metal and I realized it must be Twilight engaged in a fight with Meadow! I had to get there quickly and remembered I could fly. It took some time to get over the height I would be from the ground, but I got my courage and flew to the castle.

Part Two; Meadow Weave: The Castle