Equestria deciphered

                                                                                  Prologue

     They never expected her to do the dark accomplishments that lay before the small unicorn that which gazed in horror at the darkness that lay littered on the floor of her old friend's cabin. They all thought of it as a simple illness, but instead it was pure heartless killing. She played them all into her false sense of remorse and kindness. Sweetie belle peeked once more from her shut eyes and closed them shut immediately, to afraid to see the thing that lay dormant in Fluttershy's kitchen. Fluttershy was gone now, but her darkness would forever penetrate the souls of every pony that dared now to call her a friend. Sweetie belle remembered the time of her old friend. She rembered the time where she had to work for her when her sister rarity was out of town, or at least she thought was out of town. She wished that she never had to go to her house on that day. That one day, out of all the other days, it had to be that one day she went to her house, not knowing that one day would be the day she would see Fluttershy's true soul.

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    It was a crisp blue morning at the carousel boutique. Sweetie belle yawned as the early birds chirped softly. With her magic, she took the sheet off her bed and got up. She then galloped downstairs and captured a whiff of delicious eggs and toast with a hint of oats. She turned the corner, and saw her sister rarity cooking with her magic. She looked over and smiled at sweetie belle.

   "Good morning sis, what's the occasion. You never make breakfast this early." Sweetie belle yawned as she sat down at the table.

   "Oh I know dear, it's just last night, I got a very important invitation from manehattan. They want me to do a vintage fashion design for a world renown photographer, but sadly I only got one ticket. So, I asked some of my friends if they could watch over you while I was gone, and fluttershy was the one that reluctantly agreed to the matters." Rarity spoke as she raked the food onto the plate that was placed on the table set out for sweetie belle.

    "Fluttershy?" Sweetie belle cooed questioningly.

     Suddenly there was a soft ring at the door.

    "Ooh, that's probably her." Rarity said quickly.

     Rarity and sweetie belle then went out of the kitchen and toward the door. With her magic, rarity opened the door quickly to reveal a yellow Pegasus with soft green irises and a pink flowing mane.

    "um, hello." The Pegasus spoke softly while looking at the ground and back at them with her hoof slowly grazing the dirt.

    "Why, hello fluttershy. Sweetie belle's luggage is in my room, already packed, and my keys are under the doormat. Oh, and I almost forgot!" Rarity said surprisingly as she ran back into the boutique.

     She came back to the door with a white silky cat with a cute little bow trying to pry itself from rarity's unicorn magic.

    "Opal, be a good kitty with fluttershy and sweetie belle. Sweetie belle, be a dear and go get your luggage in my room. I'll be waiting right here." Rarity finished happily and quickly.

     Sweetie belle then ran inside, upstairs, and into rarity's room. She spotted the one purple satchel on rarity's bed and threw it on her back, huffing and puffing from the heaviness of her luggage. She strolled slowly down stairs and toward the door where she saw fluttershy struggling with opal.

    "Here I am." Sweetie belle puffed to rarity. Suddenly, a small chariot pulled by two stallions strolled up to the boutique.

    "Wonderful, sweetie belle. I shall be on my way to the friendship express. I love you." Rarity cooed as she kissed sweetie belle. "And I love you too, opal!" Rarity cooed as she kissed opal on the forehead.

     Opal growled as rarity kissed her and as rarity galloped into the chariot. She waved goodbye as the chariot strolled toward the direction of the train station and waved until the chariot was out of sight. Sweetie belle stood there with fluttershy struggling to hold opal in a deadly silence.

    "Well, um, I guess we should go to my house now." Fluttershy squeaked softly.

    "Okay!" Sweetie belle shouted impatiently, startling fluttershy.

      Sweetie belle thought she detected some impatience with fluttershy as well, but she ignored it.

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     The cabin glowed softly in the morning light as the two ponies, who were now both struggling with the cat, neared toward it. Once there, they entered the cabin, relieved to set the cat down onto the floor of the cottage. Sweetie belle looked up and noticed the many different animals inside Fluttershy's house. A small little white bunny hopped toward sweetie belle and sniffed her hooves.

  "Hey, angel!" Sweetie belle shouted in her ear causing her to jump and fall on the ground.

    Angel got up and bounded away with a snobbish expression on her face, though not as snobbish as the stern gaze opal gave to the other animals. Sweetie belle then sat her luggage on Fluttershy's couch, when the saddle bag accidentally popped opened, making a small piece of parchment roll out onto the sofa. Sweetie belle unrolled it and it read in bold letters: WHATEVER FLUTTERSHY TELLS YOU TO DO, YOU MUST LISTEN TO HER AND FOLLOW HER COMMAND. Sweetie belle noticed fluttershy peering over and grinned while fluttershy blushed.

    "So, what can I do for you!" Sweetie belle grinned once more.

    "Well, um, I guess, maybe you could, possibly help me with the animals, they need some feeding." Fluttershy whimpered.

    "Perfect, I will run to the store and get some!" Sweetie belle grinned.

    "Oh, no need, I have started feeding my animals some special food I have in my pantry." Fluttershy said happily as she went to her pantry and came back with a burlap sack full of a peculiar mush.

     "I don't ever feed my animals that artificial food. This is one hundred percent organic mush!" Fluttershy said joyfully as she fed a scoopful to opal.

     Opal licked it, spat it up immediately, and stalked off into the kitchen.

   "Don't worry, it takes time for them to eating this new food." Fluttershy cheered patiently. Suddenly, Fluttershy's animals all dug into the sack, gnawing at the food.

   "Well, your animals seem to enjoy it!" Sweetie belle giggled.

     Suddenly, a knock came to the door. Sweetie belle answered the door, and out popped one orange Pegasus and one yellow earth pony. Both fillies.

     "Hello apple bloom and scootaloo!, I completely forgot about the cutie mark crusader meet up! You see, I had to help fluttershy with the animals, maybe we can do it some other time?" Sweetie belle questioned sadly.

   "Oh nonsense, you three go on and enjoy yourselves." Fluttershy said joyfully.

   "Really? Thank you fluttershy!" Sweetie belle squealed delightfully.

    The three friends then went out the door, and headed straight toward sweet apple acres where there clubhouse lay. As they were heading toward there headquarters, sweetie belle looked back, and saw the door slam shut immediately. Sweetie belle rolled her eyes and joined her friends back in galloping.

   Dusk had come to its dawn. Sweetie belle trotted back gleefully to Fluttershy's cabin when all of a sudden, she saw its door hanging from its hinges with all the cabin's lights all turned off. Without hesitation, she raced toward the cottage's entrance and gasped in horror at what she saw. All of Fluttershy's animals scattered dead on the floor. Sweetie belle saw opal cringed up in a corner growling with a blood soaked pelt. Sweetie belle picked her up gently and petted her.

   "Who hurt you?" Sweetie belle questioned.

     Suddenly, a grinder sounded from the kitchen. Sweetie belle peeked in and saw fluttershy about to drop her pet angel into a grinder with a burlap sack at the end of it that had that mush in it.The mush was the meat of her animals!

   "Don't touch him."  Sweetie belle shouted.

    Fluttershy looked over and threw angel to the floor, making angel spit up mucus.

   "Well, well, well, it seems as if some pony learned something new today." Fluttershy chuckled. "I would expect some pony to find out sooner or later, I just expected it to be some pony with a sense to escape as soon as possible. You really believed that I was kind, that poor little fluttershy is a guiltless pony, that she would never have the integrity to kill the animals! They all thought it was an illness, and I expect them to keep believing that!" She laughed darkly while backing sweetie belle and opal into a corner.

   "What are you going to do?" Sweetie belle questioned while clutching opal even tighter.

    "I am going to have lunch! That's what I'm going to do, any last words?" Fluttershy questioned. Sweetie belle closed her eyes, peeked open a single eye, looked behind fluttershy, and smiled.

   "Yes, it is a rarity to find your true soul!" Sweetie belle smiled.

   "Wha.." SMACK. Fluttershy landed on the floor and found herself being tackled by rarity.

   "Take that!, you ruffian!" Rarity screamed in her ear.

    They scrambled and fought each other for minutes until rarity picked a medical shot with fluids inserted in it from the counter, stabbed it into her, and injected the fluids that were in there. Fluttershy then wobbled and collapsed to the floor. She closed her eyes and never opened them again. Sweetie belle placed opal gently to the floor and galloped to rarity.

   "I put her to sleep, just like you do with an animal." Rarity spat. "Come sister, lets go back home." Rarity commanded.

   "Wait, how did you know this would happen. I thought you were in manehattan?" Sweetie belle questioned.

   "I knew it was a trick all along. I have been given the same letter for months. I knew it was some pony trying to keep me from you. I never asked my friends if they would watch you, fluttershy said she would watch you, but the wired part was that she did not know that you would need watching or that I was going somewhere in the first place. So, I spied on you two and stopped her before she killed you and opal, or angel for that matter." rarity finished as she motivationally nudged angel to stand up.

   Rarity then took opal and angel by the scruffs and tucked them in her saddle bag and she and sweetie belle strolled toward the door.

   "Wait, sis!" Sweetie belle stopped.

   "Yes, dearest." Rarity answered.

   "Thank you." She cooed.

   "Anytime." Rarity said as she nuzzled sweetie belle.

   "One more thing rarity, I think I forgot some luggage in the kitchen. I'll be back." Sweetie belle said quickly.

    Rarity nodded in approval and sweetie belle quickly galloped back into the kitchen. She looked and closed her eyes, to afraid to see her like this. The body of fluttershy strangely lay dormant, and sweetie belle could not help but walk over to her and cry over her.

    "The things that you could of done, the works that you could of achieved, why did you have to waste them on this?" She cried softly.

     Suddenly sweetie belle peered over, and found an old parchment entangled in her mane. She picked it up with her magic and read:

Dear sweetie belle,

         If you have found this letter then good. I have been kidnapped by impostors. No, not changelings, something worse. Something smart enough to know the strongest powers of equestria, your heart. it is the heart of friendship. You and your two friends share this forgotten element. An element that not even starswirled the bearded himself could figure out. Don't tell no one, not even your sister about this. They all think that this element is gone and that it was only used as a part of the hearth's warming eve story. It is only something you and your two friends should know about. If someone says that you can trust them, then you should run. Don't ever let this darkness get to you. Always remember that they will never hurt you. They will never take you. They will never break you. For as long as your light stands, they will never dim you. Your heart has something powerful. Something that the world will never grasp and stow away in its darkest of darkness.

Sincerely,

Fluttershy

Sweetie belle stared at the letter for a long time and cried. She looked at the stars through the window and remembered the last part of the letter. She smiled.

     "I swear fluttershy. I will find you. I will bring back this forgotten element, and destroy this darkness. We will be the deciphers of equestria.