Naturally, I couldn't help but noticing that one yellow filly, with the pink mane and tail. She had always kept both main and tail stylish and long in a filly's kind of way. It may not be how I kept mine, but she made it look wonderful.

Sadly, I never saw all that much of her. Not out of class, in which case she sat in the other end of the room. She had been the quiet and lonely filly back at the time.

Even in her solitude, she did sound bright, but withdrawn to me. Something bothered her, which in turn bothered me too. I had not known I was the element of Loyalty at the time, but it still made me sad to see her in the sorry state she was in, every time I saw her.

Since I didn't see what was the cause of her problems, there wasn't anything I could do about it. I had my own studies to care about. I had high hopes and was dreaming of the academy already. If only I had known, maybe I could have done something and in turn spared her the pain?

What I had not known back then, what finally saved her from the continuous torment came to us with the day I was to protect her honour against the brats. Only she fell down to the ground at the start.

There had been a kind of self exile. She had never returned to Cloudsdale. She merely moved down to Ponyville, where she found a refuge and a purpose in caring for the critters.

Just after she fell down, I had performed the Sonic Rainboom, which apparently inspired her, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity and Apple Dash. I had unknowingly helped them in finding who they were and thus given them their Cutie Mark, right along with my very own.

She had helped the critters and found herself at this point. This is her place, caring for all the critters around Ponyville. This is where the cottage she lives in, even to this day.

I was happy to see her as I finally got the chance to reunite with her, even though she had changed, grown and developed since she fell through the clouds down to Ponyville.

This is when I had found not the one seemingly lost friend, but four other friends. The friends I had inspired, as I performed the Rainboom. What I had not expected, what I could never have expected, is the feelings she had sparked within me. It is so much more than just a friendship. There was no pity for her, but a tenderness for a loved Pony.

I had inspired them, ignited the flame that was to come. They in turn fuelled the flame, each in their own ways. A closeness that could not be broken, even if I had never been the element of Loyalty in the first place.

I had known friendship is important, loyalty is my fundament in it. Just that I was to learn just how critical son after I had rejoined with my friends, old and new. Luna had returned from the moon, still as her dark, darkened persona known as Nightmare Moon. Only the strength of our friendship allowed us to perform and triumph in the end. She told us just how happy she is to be back. I guess she should be, considering how trying the feelings she was carrying are.

Shortly there after it was Discord who came back. He had been banished to stone, his statue gracing the castle with its grey form, where it later had allowed him a new return. Finally the burden and duty fell upon my dear Flutter Shy to reform him. She is after all the element of kindness, who better to brave him and breach his defences?

Then I had gotten the idea to get myself a pet into my head, and with that I just had to have one. It had to be a cool pet, one who could carry my forwards. She had been the one to help me out here, to find the pet I was looking for, even if I may not have known what it was I really needed. She showed me about every pet she had available. The cute, the silly, the ugly and the dumb, right along with the fun, funny and cool once.

I had been tempted by several of the pets, like the Bat, the Eagle, the Owl, the Wasp, but I had never quite imagined it was to be a Tortoise. Or the Turtle, as I insisted on calling it. What ever is the difference anyway?

Once I had gotten enough interesting candidates, I hatched the idea of a contest. I had set up several tests with which I intended to test, challenge and try them to the fullest. I ended up with Tank. At first, she was just the turtle to me. Only Twilight helped her with the final detail, she is now flying, if not quite as fast as me. Then again, there is none who could challenge me on flying speed anyway, why even bother?

Not that I could have avoided her if I had wanted to, we both live in the same village. I had been visiting her from time to time, just to ask her about how to care for my new pet. Like always, she answered with her usual kind smile, always helping me out kindly as ever. Maybe it wasn't just Discord who enjoyed her kindness?

As time went by, I found myself visiting her more often, and not always in search of help with my pet. I had grown used to having her around. I had started to enjoy her gentle smile more than I had dared hope for, it had grown on me.

Not sure how or where it had happened, but something had changed, I can't be entirely without her. I need Flutter Shy with me. I tried to help her the best I could, when she could possibly need my help.

We had all tried to help her, the shyness and any other problem. I couldn't just see her be the doormat any and every pony just pushed over and stepped on. Asking Iron Will had been a disastrous mistake we made. Yet, we did it, and paid for the mistake.

I had asked her to help out with the Hurricane, just like I had asked every other Pegasus in Ponyville as well, it was the Duty of all the Weather Ponies in the first place. Several of my Pegasi had left with some poor excuse. Flutter Shy had shown up, she did her best. In the end she was the Pony to save the entire enterprise. The Hurricane had worked and Cloudsdale got the water I had been charged with pulling in for them. In the name of weather control for Equestria.

She had made me proud, in so many ways. Standing up when it actually did any difference. I had even seen her stare down the meanest of dragons, just in order to protect her critters, even when I knew she was scared. She fears dragons.

Seeing her on and off, when we both had an opening in the tight schedule life pushed upon us. I have the weather of Ponyville on my shoulders, a bit more literal then one may find comfortable from time to time. She has the care of the critters.

What I had not known is how much she love singing, mainly due to the one painful fact, she is still as shy as the Deer. She is dear to me too. This one day we all stumbled in on her singing in the first. She was apparently happy, singing for the critters. My mind was blown right then and there.

Rarity had to insist on Flutter Shy taking her place in her group, the Pony Tones, since her voice and love for singing demanded it. Just as certainly, Flutter Shy refused. She pointed out that she couldn't Even though they were singing on her fund-raiser event.

What turned the tables is when Big Macintosh screwed his voice over on the Turkey Call contest she apparently was the raining title holder of, for seven years. He had defended the title, but his voice did not take it as well as desired. He was simply incapable of performing the base he was supposed to. Zecora had given Flutters the opportunity to take his place, but behind the scene.

Author's Note

I'm trying to give a little bit of a nice retrospect on how the relatin had grown, and where it all came from.