Hush
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Chill winds rolled over the Cutie Mark Crusaders in front of the shy pony, Fluttershy's house. The lighting was dim, as it was in fact nighttime, and very few ponies were about at this hour. They had been abandoned by their original guardian, Rarity, who simply did not wish to watch them and abruptly dismissed them to stay with Fluttershy, despite the pleads they gave about how boring and lame she was. Not a one of them had really wanted to come, not Scootaloo, nor Applebloom, nor even Sweetie Bell. But, being the hopeless filly's they were, they had no choice on the matter. So, there they stood, nudging each other in the cold.
"Awh, c'mon Flutters it's cold as heck out here!" Applebloom whined, shuffling a bit.
"Yeah, what's the big idea? Trying to freeze us or something?" Scootaloo shivered quite heavily, cuddling close to the middle member, Sweetie Bell. A moment of silence followed, before the wooden door opened quickly, showing the pale, pink haired pony inside looking flustered and ashamed.
"Oh my gosh, I am so so so sorry, girls!" Fluttershy practically whispered when she tried to speak, voice lighter than a feather. The girls immediately bolted inside, gusting Fluttershy out of the way as she cowered down from them, whining a bit. Once the gust faded, the pale pony pushed up and nosed the door closed, trotting to the living room with the girls, who were now chatting away like no tomorrow.
"So good to get away from my sister," Sweetie giggled.
"Awh, shucks, my sister's the bes' one alive! I'd give well.. Anythan' for her to be here," Applebloom piped in.
"Yeah, yeah, blah blah. Dashy would really blow both your sisters out of the water," Scootaloo grinned, leaning back a bit.
"SAY WHAT?!" Applebloom and Sweetie wailed out together. Fluttershy just looked between them as an argument broke out, few lines able to be heard.
"Dashy's amazing!"
"If by amazin' you mean annoyin' sure!"
"Yeah!"
"U-Uhm let's qui-..." Flutershy started.
"At least Dashy doesn't spend all day kicking trees like a dufus!"
"Oh you did NOT jus' go thare. Least my big sis doesn' spend all day flyin' round bein' useless!"
"Yeah! What Applebloom said!"
"G-Girls plea-..."
"DASHY IS THE COOLEST PONY IN PONYVILLE!"
"Why's that? Cause she has rainbow mane? Oooh, so perty, huh? Shucks, why don't we just say Twiligh' Sparkle's the best cause o' her pink n' purple mane?!"
"Well, Twilight is pretty cool..."
"NOT NOW SWEETIEBELL!" Applebloom and Scootaloo roared in unison. Sweetiebell cowered down, quaking like mad. Fluttershy ran forward, butting between them all.
"S-Stop!" She mustered, before cowering down once more. "... P-Please."
"... Hmph," Scootaloo huffed, flaring her tiny orange wings.
"... Welp, I am plum tuckered out. I'm ready to hit the hay," Applebloom yawned, stomping towards the bedroom. Fluttershy gave a deep sigh. She just couldn't keep up with these confusing fillies! The other two Crusaders followed in suit, all flopping into bed. Fluttershy trotted in, looking to the burning candle with a smile. She trotted to the bedside, before looking at the girls in a row.
"Would you like me to sing a lullaby to you~?" Fluttershy spoke with gentle sincerity in her voice, smiling to them.
"That'd be nice!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever."
"Back at home, my sis sings me a lullabai sometimes. Shure, why not Flutters!"
Fluttershy smiled a bit, before clearing her throat and beginning to sing, closing her own eyes as she let her soft, feminine singing voice go into overdrive.
"Hush, now. Quiet, now, it's time to lay your sleepy heads..."
The trio cuddled close, closing their eyes as they began to be lulled into sleep.
"... Hush, now, quiet now, it's time to go to beeeddd..."
The three were out cold before she could finish. Fluttershy blew out the candle, and walked out, shutting the door in silence.
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The trio woke with a clap of thunder. They felt their frontal hooves grasped tightly by something, dangling them in the air. They each looked to each other... This was odd. They were just in bed, weren't they? It was still dark outside so no less than a few hours could have passed.
"What's the big idea, huh?" Applebloom shook and rocked her constraints, which made slight rattling noises.
"Scootalooooo~! What did you dooo!" Sweetie chimed in, voice upset as she too rattled for freedom, failing miserably.
"This wasn't me gals! I swear!" A bit of liquid dropped on Scootaloo's shoulder, and she shivered at it's stickiness. "Ew! What is this gunk!?"
"Ugh! Maybe Flutters can get us down. Maybe we just were sleep walkin'."
"Right, right... On three. One.. Two.. Three!"
"FLUUUUUUTTTTERRRRSHHHYYYYY!!!!" The crusaders exclaimed, yelling and screeching at the top of their lungs in unison. A clap of lightning revealed the rainy outside, and cast a shadow along the floor... One of Fluttershy. The pale, shy pony stood where the moonlight only illuminated her hair slightly, so she looked more like a shadow than anything.
"Oh hey! Fluttershy! What in tarnation is going on!?" Applebloom cried out.
"... Hush," Fluttershy spoke, voice still soft as usual.
"C'mon, Flutters! Get us dooowwwnnnn~!" Sweetiebell was in tears at this point. Then, the lights came on, dim and bleak. The trio looked up... And were greeted by eyeless, carved pony heads staring down at them, their hooves enclosed in the teeth. The liquid was blood from the pony's removed eyes, dripping down as if from an abyss.
"What in t-tarnation..."
"EEK!"
"Oh my Gosh... Somepony.. Help me.. Gunna... Hurl.." Scootaloo then vomited down to the floor, and Fluttershy slowly raised her gaze upwards, revealing her half-hair-covered face to be coated in blood. The Crusaders shrieked in terror.
"Ohhh, girls... You have always been so mean to me, silly fillies." Fluttershy said as the lights went out once more, moonlight showing her wicked grin. "You say I'm so lame.. Boring.. Too weak for my own good.. Too nice.. Too shy.. I'm also.." She pressed her face directly to the cowering Sweetiebell's. "Too. Sick. Of. You. Three." The trio began sobbing, whining and whimpering as Fluttershy backed away, wicked grin still visible. "So, tonight.. I will fertilize my gardens... Feed my pets... And myself... And show you how not boring I am," Fluttershy walked to the door, flicking on the lights to expose a blood-covered room, Fluttershy herself coated in a messy layer of the red substance. The trio all just cried harder at this. "P-Please, Fluttershy! I-I p-promise I'll s-stop bein' mean! P-Please!" Applebloom wailed, tears like waterfalls down her cheeks.
"M-Me too! I'll s-stop talking a-about Dashy so m-much!" Scootaloo whined.
"I-I... Nngh!" Sweetiebell couldn't talk through choking on tears and trying not to look at Fluttershy. The now reddish pony walked to Sweetiebell, pressing close to her once more.
"Look at me."
"N-N-No!"
"Look at me."
"N-N-Nev-Never, y-you monster!"
"... LOOK AT ME!" Fluttershy screamed, pressing her face to Sweetiebell's. Sweetiebell fell silent, before hesitantly glancing at Fluttershy. She screamed at the grin. She cried at the pony's wicked eyes. She flailed at the blood.
"NO N-NO PLEASE!"
"... You can be saved for last... You get to watch," Fluttershy moved to Applebloom, before flapping her wings up and pulling off her chained heads, dropping her to the floor with them attached. Applebloom shook her head, trying to stand but awkwardly falling due to the massive bulges on her hoofs.
"P-Please! F-Fluttershai', please!"
"... An earth pony will be good fertilizer," She cackled a bit before moving up to knock the other two down, tying all of them together with skill. "You two will watch. If I catch you looking away... You will die all the slower." She began to tug them into the raining outside, winds howling and throwing all of their manes. Scootaloo couldn't speak due to tears and sobs, but Sweetiebell just bit her lip tight, held her eyes shut, and whined. Fluttershy tugged them all to her garden, grabbing Applebloom's chain with her teeth and tugging her towards it's middle.
"Now now, you two. Pay close attention." Scootaloo sobbed as she watched, knowing she couldn't look away, but Sweetie refused. Fluttershy growled. "You're losing your place as we speak, Sweetie..." She then cracked open her eyes, letting out her millions of withheld cries. Fluttershy's grin grew. She carried Applebloom up to hang by a tree limb above the garden. She then hovered behind the house, coming back with a knife that she could somehow hold with her hoof. She went to Apple. "... Shame you'll never get a cutie mark..." She then traced the knife over each of Apple's hips, causing her to scream in agony, unable to speak at this point due to the pain and tears. "Lalalalalalalala..." Fluttershy then moved up, grinning as she sized up Applebloom's body. She peeled the skin off like a banana, being sure to let the pain last as long as possible. She then easily slid the knife into Apple's stomach. "Let's just take out this shall we?" She stabbed it deeper inside, causing all three to scream in either agony or fear.
"N-NO STOP!" Sweetie cried out. Oh such a silly filly. Fluttershy laughed at the screams, before pulling out the knife, bloody drops falling from it to the ground, small, filly intestines on it's tip.
"Do you see this? This is what we use to make an self fertilizing fertilizer..." Applebloom couldn't respond, near fainting and near death. The maniacal pale pony just laughed, raising up the intestines and showing them to the dying filly. "Do you like these? Because I certainly do." She slowly began leaning towards Applebloom's neck, mumbling as she screamed her final scream: "Hush now..." Before ripping her throat out with her teeth. Fluttershy spit the flesh directly onto Sweetiebell's mane, causing her tears and cries to grow louder.
"APPLEBLOOM!" The two cried out in unison. Fluttershy laughed a bit as she dropped the knife, using both hooves on the intestines now. She fed the sausage-looking organ through Apple's mouth, forcing it out of the hole in her throat. She then tied the end of the intestines with another portion, biting it off from the rest. Blood poured onto the garden as the psychotic pony hung Applebloom by her intestines, letting the chained pony heads dangle. Apple swung and turned a bit, spreading blood all around. Before hovering back to the others, Fluttershy used her tongue to scoop out both eyeballs, which were frozen in fright. She took them into either hoof, hovered down, and looked at the two relentlessly crying ponies.
"Soup's on. Eat up~!" She then stuffed the eyes into both of their mouths, grinning as they looked horrified, and about to hurl. "Vomit and you're next. And it won't be pleasant to be next."
As if on cue, Scootaloo released a torrent of vomit. Mostly stomach acid, with an eyeball cherry on top. Fluttershy grinned a bit, but Sweetie shook her head, spluttering out.
"N-NO TAKE M-ME!"
"... Hush," Fluttershy leaned down, grabbing Scootaloo and dragging both inside by the chains. Applebloom was visible outside the window, dangling from her intestines and dripping blood.
"Oohhhh, Angel~!" Fluttershy called. The bunny bounded up, nose twitching as if antsy to do something. "... I brought you a new burrow." She threw Scootaloo down. "NO NO NO!" The filly pleaded. "PLEASE!" But Angel had already hopped atop her. The bunny jumped on her stomach a bit, before leaning down and beginning to claw at her stomach. Blood began showing as he slowly made an indention in her flesh. Scootaloo screamed in agony all throughout the burrowing. She couldn't do anything but kick her legs as the bunny began to hit her insides with it's tiny claws. The bunny was covered in blood when it found her stomach. She screeched as it began slicing the fabric there, cutting through layer after layer. Sweetie couldn't watch... Such a silly filly. Angel at last bursted through, releasing pure stomach acid out along all of Scootaloo's exposed organs. The blood loss was just enough that she was still alive and able to feel it. Scootaloo let out many screams, only to choke on blood or tears. As she neared death, blood pooling around her, organs greedily being removed by Angel, Fluttershy leaned down, whispering to her.
"... Hush now ..."
Sweetiebell heard the death cry of Scootaloo. She was now alone with the maniac. She sobbed and weeped, coughing out but one word.
"... W-Why..."
Fluttershy laughed, before grabbing Sweetie by her neck and flying her into the bedroom, connecting her chains to the bed poles. Sweetie knew resisting was foolish.. Yet she flailed and writhed violently.
"S-STOP PLEASE!" She pleaded.
"Oh, boo-hoo-hoo," Fluttershy grumbled, "Would you like me to sing you a lullaby? Okay~!"
Fluttershy stuffed the blanket into Sweetie's mouth, grinning a bit as she began singing. "Hush now..." She rammed her hoof into Sweetie's frontal leg, smashing it and causing a loud pop to emit, muffled screams and cries heard. Fluttershy grasped a knife from somewhere under the bed, and began to trace on Sweetie's body. "Quiet now..." She traced the word 'HUSH' in bloody lines. Sweetie tried to scream, oh how she tried, using all the force she could muster, but failing miserably. "After this, you're surely dead..." She stabbed the knife deep into Sweetie's lower stomach, causing her tears to stream thicker and more profusely from her eyes. Fluttershy laughed as she ripped it out, before continuing, dragging the knife up along her victim's body to leave a faint, oozing line of blood from stomach wound towards her neck. "Hush now..." She made a circle with the knife, before leaning down to spit on the circle, her saliva causing the wound to sting and burn furiously. Sweetie felt pressure in her chest from being unable to scream, beginning to hyperventilate, but just sucking the rag in more. "Quiet now..." Fluttershy simply leaned forward to stare into Sweetie's miserable eyes, her own bloodshot and insane. She gave Sweetie a kiss on the forehead, before simply muttering to her: "... Time to lose your heeeead..." She then pulled back, arching the knife to cleave off Sweetie's head, and plunge her into darkness.
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The trio awoke with bloodcurdling screams at the same time. The room was flooded with outside light, and the three of them were out of breath and crying, with stains near their groins on the blanket. The smell of urine filled their noses.
"D-Did.. Did that..." Scootaloo started.
"... I-I f-felt all o-of it..." Applebloom shuddered slightly. Sweetie couldn't speak, herself trembling horrendously. The three, pressing tight together, waddled into the main room, dripping a faint, faint trail of pee behind them, still trying to recover from the dream. Once in the room, they noticed three bowls on the table, and a note. They hurried to the bowls, and Scoot read the note aloud, voice quiet to stay steady.
"Girls,
I had to step out.. To get more carrots for.. Angel. I made you three some soup, you should.. Enjoy.
-Fluttershy"
The three gulped, before licking their lips and plunging into their bowls, grinning as they began to lighten up. "Mmm, mm! This girl can cook up right!" Applebloom giggled, joined by Scootaloo. Sweetiebell managed a smile, before looking back and preparing for another plunge into her soup bowl, before freezing. Applebloom and Scootaloo looked over.
"Not hungry?"
"Somethin' wrong, Sweetie?"
Sweetiebell reached into her bowl, pulling out a long black strand of mane, holding it high for them to see. Scootaloo looked to the note, which now read in scribbly-black letters: "HUSH NOW QUIET NOW, TELL ANYPONY AND YOU'RE DEAD."