Dresses

A few days passed, Rainbow had apparently moved back to Cloudsdale and didn't want to keep in contact with anyone in Ponyville. It took the other ponies in there group some time to adjust, but were glad they still had the friends that they did. A few days later, Pinkie Pie tried to help Fluttershy while she rounded up the tiny baby bunnies in the forest. She took count of every one of them each year to see how the population was doing, and made sure that they were healthy and would be able to live through Winter. Pinkie, on the other hoof, was not nearly as adept at this job, and often scared the baby bunnies away before they could even be put in a circle, making Fluttershy's job very easy.

The pink pony was more of a partier than a care taker, and was too hyper to do a task like this, but Fluttershy couldn't possibly tell her to leave, she didn't have the heart to tell her friend she was doing a bad job. They gathered about 80 baby bunnies and more still existed in the Everfree Forest, that they would still have to go find. Fluttershy headed back into the forest and talked quietly to bunnies they found along the way, allowing them to ride on her back as she flew around. The forest wasn't bad in the day time, as a good deal of sunlight was able to break through the trees and onto the ground. It glistened off of the dew on the grass and leaves and looked like tiny diamonds scattered about the ground, showing just how beautiful nature was. It was the reason that Fluttershy truly loved coming out here in the forest and taking care of all the woodland creatures.

"Pinky, I have enough bunnies that we can head back and drop them off. I'm pretty sure after this, I'll be able to make an accurate estimate of how many bunnies were born this season." Fluttershy said softly, so as not to scare any of the bunnies.

"OOOOKAY!" Pinky said in a booming loud, high pitched voice. The bunnies cowered behind Fluttershy's wing, grabbing it and holding it as shelter from the pink pony. Fluttershy fell to the ground after losing control of one of her wings. She landed with a thud, but the bunnies didn't run away this time. She offered soothing words of comfort to the bunnies as they cowered and said it would be all right and they could go back to their homes soon. The bunnies released her wing and allowed the two ponies to exit the Everfree Forest.

After they got out of the forest, they looked around a bit and went back to the group of bunnies they had left behind when they went in.

"Okay, Pinkie, I'm going to take a final count of all the bunnies we have here, then we'll be done. But please, you have to be very quiet when I do, or they might run away again." Fluttershy told her friend.

"OOOO-" Fluttershy put her hoof over Pinkie's mouth and shook her head no. Pinkie looked at her and shook her head in understanding, up and down quickly and rather childishly. "okay!" she whispered, still with a great deal of enthusiasm. Fluttershy flew away and over the bunnies so that she could begin counting.

"Okay little guys, let's get into a few lines so that we can get you all counted and send you back on your ways." Fluttershy smiled as the bunnies slowly lined up in lines of ten, then started another line behind them. Fluttershy began to count the bunnies, making sure they hadn't miscounted.

After the last bunny had gotten in line, Pinkie jumped the gun.

"Let's PARTAY!" Pinkie shouted and jumped up and down, putting on a party hat with her hooves. The bunnies all flinched and ran in opposite directions from the pink pony. Fluttershy tried to gather them up, but this only seemed to amplify the problem. They gathered together, and began to run in one direction, towards Rarity's house. Rarity was now just entering her house after going shopping for more fabrics for another dress she had started, this one was to be delivered to the Gala by the train alone, and Rarity was not invited this time. The bunnies ran and ran, Fluttershy continued to try stopping them, but her quiet voice seemed to have no power over the frightened bunnies.

Before she knew it, the bunnies sped past Rarity going into the house and scaring Rarity. They ran through the house with dirty feet, and bit and scratched at everything, her bed sheets, the curtains, the walls, and yes, especially her dresses. Worst of all, the bunnies seemed to congregate around the new dress that was supposed to be done in two days. They clawed and bit at the dress, tearing fabric from it and shredding it on the ground, trying to make beds and tiny bunny huts to hide form Pinkie Pie in. As Rarity turned to see if there were any more bunnies coming to ruin her things, she saw Fluttershy flying towards her. From her perspective, and from the simple fact that it looked like she had been herding the bunnies in this direction, Rarity assumed the worst. She ran into her house and slammed the door behind her, dropping all of groceries on the way in as she used her magic to wrap all of the bunnies up in the now tattered dress.

She sent them out the door wrapped up in the fabric and through them out the door at Fluttershy, having it land on top of her. The bunnies then dispersed into the forest and around Ponyville where they would eventually calm down. Fluttershy was left on the ground covered by the ruined dress that had dirt all over it.

"Oh, Rarity, please don't be mad, they were just scared." she whispered under the dress, inaudible to Rarity, and Fluttershy then heard the door being locked. She got up and picked up the dress. "Oh little bunnies, why did you have to ruin Rarity's dress?" she asked the air.

Rarity sat in her bathroom, taking out a bottle from the bag of groceries that she had gotten from the market. She had visited the pony back at the stylist shop and bought a full bottle of the black dye. The last streaks that were put in were starting to fade now, and she just wanted to touch them up at first. But she stopped caring about being careful with the dye and putting straight lines in her hair that was still left down. She covered her mane in the black dye and dyed her tail along with it. She kept it down, covering half of her face as she grew more and more furious with what Fluttershy had done. Of all ponies in all of Equestria, Rarity would have never guessed that Fluttershy would do something so rude, something so cruel to her. But she knew exactly what to do back, and she started to plot.

She visited Twilight yet again, Twilight feeling more uneasy as time progressed. Rarity was slowly loosing herself to the darkness in the world, and forgetting what friendship really meant. However, she did tell Rarity that she could be depended on to help, and she didn't plan on going back on her word and letting her friends down. Rarity told her about Fluttershy releasing bunnies who had destroyed most of her work, including the dress that was absolutely necessary to have.

"Rarity, don't you think you may be overreacting? I mean, I can't imagine Fluttershy doing something so mean." Twilight tried to reason with Rarity before they did this again, but Rarity insisted.

"I saw it with my own two eyes Twilight, she herded those bunnies straight into my house!" Rarity said, anger still coursing through her veins. Twilight didn't argue any more, perhaps Fluttershy had become evil and wanted to hurt others. She thought that, perhaps, Discord may have tricked her again and changed her mood, but either way it was a very important dress, and was specially made for Princess Luna, who would now have to go without a lovely dress. Twilight agreed to telling Fluttershy that Rarity wanted to see her and apologize for locking her out and not trying to talk it over. Rarity thanked her purple friend and exited the library.

Rarity had a bit more planning to do this time, Rainbow had been killed in the fashion that Rarity saw fit to what she had done. Fluttershy, on the other hand, didn't harm Rarity in any way, but had tarnished her reputation and destroyed one of Rarity's best dresses. Rarity wondered into the Everfree forest looking around, she took a large raw beef steak with her using her magic to carry the bloody meat. She wondered for quite some time before she stumbled upon a cave.

"Perfect!" she said to herself wondering in. As she had planned, a bear was sleeping in the middle of the cave. She dangled the steak in front of the quiet bear, making sure to stand clear of its line of sight. The bear sniffed, still half asleep and its mouth started to drip with saliva as it pulled its head off the ground. It's eyes shot open and it snapped at the steak, catching it between its sharp teeth. The bear clawed at the meat as Rarity pulled it away with her magic, holding it above where the bear could reach, but close enough that it wouldn't give up. The bear reached for the fresh piece of meat without any luck, but Rarity would drop it closer so that it would continue to follow closely. She continued this until she reached her house.

Getting the bear through the door was the hardest part, it was almost too large to fit and was very dangerous. She had made sure she locked Opal in her cage and let her sleep before she had left for this task, so that she didn't have a fight in the middle of her house. She walked over to her black room, where she had redesigned the inside, getting rid of the chair in the middle and putting a frame up. The frame had 4 shackles that were able to be tightened and pull them further to the edges. Along with this, there was a large cage that was surrounded by bars that she led the bear in to. She dropped the meat in the cage and closed the gate that would keep the bear in, and she had laced the steak with sleeping pills so that after he had eaten it, she would have time to set other things up without a bear roaring in her ear to get out.

"Now, you stay there until I need you." Rarity told the bear as the sleeping pills started to kick in and he fell onto the hard metal floor of his cage. "You're going to have a lot more where that came from."

By now, Rarity thought, Twilight should already have Fluttershy coming over, and everything is ready for her. Everything seemed to fall perfectly in place, and she was ready to make a new dress. She had given the one that she made before to Scootaloo. She had always adored Rainbow Dash, and Rarity thought it would be nice if she could have a gift from her favorite pony before she 'moved'.

Fluttershy crept into the house after Rarity told her to come in. The lights were out, and everything seemed ominous.

"I'm sorry, it seems my electricity went out, I'm just looking for some candles right now." Rarity said. "Please, come in, I'll meet you in the den." Rarity smiled as she sat quietly in the shadows behind the door. Fluttershy came in and walked slowly, making sure she wouldn't bump into anything, and before she knew it she blacked out. Rarity had taken a frying pan and hit her across the back of the head as she walked in the door. She dragged the yellow pony with her magic by one of her wings. "It's seems I couldn't find any candles, but you can come in anyway, dear Fluttershy." Rarity smiled as she said this to Fluttershy's limp body.

When Fluttershy had woken up, she observed her surroundings. She must have just passed out from flying so quickly to get to Rarity's house and apologize. But she found something else was strange about this, every other house in Ponyville and even the ones she could see in Cloudsdale had lights on and electricity working. Why was Rarity's electricity not working then? She wondered for only a few short seconds when she realized something very strange, her hooves were all strapped and clamped in metal rings and she was standing upright and couldn't move from that position.

"Um, Rarity... Is anyone there?" She asked in the darkness, fear was in her voice, but not the most prominent part of it, yet. Rarity was sure that it wouldn't take long to hear only fear in the pegasus's voice after they had begun to have their fun.

"Oh, Fluttershy!" Rarity said excitedly. "I didn't think you'd ever wake up, I'm so glad that you did. But what's this?" She asked in a hypothetical voice, "You seem to be all tied up my dear, here, let me see if I can't get you down with one of these levers." She giggled a bit as she reached out for one of the levers behind her in the darkness. The chains began to pull to the sides of the frame, gears turning and clanking about in the darkness. Fluttershy's limbs slowly started to stretch out.

"Rarity, I think that's the wrong switch!" she said in a hurry, her voice still not very loud at all. Rarity flipped the switch back to stop the gears.

"Silly me, it's so hard to see in this darkness." she said, "Let me try something else dear." she flipped another switch which blindfolded Fluttershy as well as putting a cloth ball in her mouth so she could no longer speak. "Did that do anything Fluttershy?" Rarity giggled louder in the darkness. She could hear Fluttershy mumble something quickly such as 'Undo it, undo it!' but Rarity knew exactly what she was doing. "You're probably curious as to why you are even in this situation aren't you Fluttershy?" Rarity asked. "Well I'll tell you."

Rarity walked out into the candle light in front of the yellow pony. "I'm going to teach you what happens to ponies who ruin my things." she said, a dark tone lingering in her voice. She could see one tear roll down Fluttershy's cheek, a tear that symbolized just how much fear she truly had in her heart. "If you are going to use woodland creatures to ruin my dress, I'll just have to use one to make a new dress, don't you think?" Rarity giggled in her ear as she went back and pulled another switch. Red blood streamed down around Fluttershy and coated every inch of her.

At this point, the bear had begun to roar with excitement at the smell. "That is the blood of fifty little bunnies Fluttershy, they're going to help me make a new dress, just like you're going to help me make a new dress." Rarity giggled again as she flipped the last switch. She was now behind a protective wall that had been set up before hoof so the bear couldn't reach her. "Enjoy your time with you little woodland friends, Fluttershy, it's the last time you'll ever get to be with them again." Rarity giggled as she sat back and watched her plans unfurl.

The bear looked around a bit, unsure of where to go seeing as it was very dark inside, however Rarity had placed the candle in such a place that the only visible thing in the room was Fluttershy. The bear ran over, bloodlust in its eyes thinking that this was a huge rabbit that would feed it for many days. As he sniffed Fluttershy ,he noticed that she didn't completely smell like a rabbit and presumed that the rabbits were hiding inside whatever this was. The bear through a claw down, shredding through Fluttershy's skin and muscles, cracking a rib having the blood run down her legs as well as down it's arm. It had already started to pool at the base of the holding frame and she had only been hit once, Rarity couldn't wait to see the rest of the show. "

The bear slashed and hacked at Fluttershy, tossing blood and organs in each direction. The tendons in her body snapped apart as did her veins and bones. Rarity could hear the pony screaming out for mercy as time progressed, up until the bear slashed a claw through her neck, cutting off the muffled cries. Rarity was slightly displeased that she would no longer get to hear Fluttershy's pain, but she could see how painful it was. The bear continued cutting and slashing through her body. Blood now coated the back wall, as well as the floor all around the stand, and Fluttershy was still barely alive. Rarity took another raw piece of meat and dangled it in front of the bear, leading it back to the cage it had come from. The bear yet again fell asleep in its cage, and Rarity went back to Fluttershy.

"Oh, Darling, you look so tiered and hurt." She lifted up Fluttershy by the chin, looking at all the damage that the bear had done. "But you can't die on me yet, I need to get the rest of your coat off before you go." She slapped Fluttershy across the face with her hoof, watching tears fly to the ground from the yellow ponies eyes. "So sit up and make sure not to move, I wouldn't want to hurt you too much now would I?" Rarity laughed more evilly now, her entire voice was shrouded in hatred for ponies that would defile her work. She smiled widely as she picked up her knife yet again, not bothering to heat it, and began cutting every piece of skin off. She saw tears stream down, mixing with the blood, dripping into Fluttershy's interior.

"You know, I've never played with anything like this before. Tell me Fluttershy, does this hurt?" Rarity slashed a kidney down its entire length. Fluttershy's head shot up as she tried to cry out, but no sound came. Rarity still disliked not hearing the pegasus cry in vain. She continued cutting flesh, knowing that Fluttershy was still alive from her lungs that were clearly visible to Rarity from her perspective. She scalped Fluttershy, taking her long flowing pink mane and then her tail. She took off Fluttershy's blindfold "I want you to see the look on my face before I kill you, Fluttershy, I want you to know that I killed you, that I hate what you did to me." Fluttershy's eyes remained closed as blood started to rush over them, Rarity used her magic to open them against Fluttershy's will, Rarity's image seemed blurry to her and red.

Rarity gave the blood enough time to pass halfway through Fluttershy's eyes before she flipped another switch, opening the trap door into the furnace. Fluttershy could feel her bear muscles burning from even the slightest breath Rarity took, and she saw the bloodlust in Rarity's eyes. Fluttershy looked at her friend in horror as she smiled that devilish smile of hers.

"Goodbye, you'll have lots of fun in 'Cloudsdale' with Rainbow, I'm sure." Rarity smiled, Fluttershy trying to gasp as her eyes widened, only making more blood seep out of the large gash in her neck. Her view began to fade as she lost more and more blood. Rarity pulled another switch, which dropped the Pegasus into the blazing inferno at the bottom. "I'm sure the woodland creatures will survive without you." Rarity smiled as she watched Fluttershy try as hard as she could to escape the flames, unable to as she went down further into them with every passing instant. She flipped the switch again and closed the trap door. Next her problem would be getting the word out that Fluttershy had moved, along with moving the bear out of her house.

"Oh Twilight!" Rarity called into the library happily. "I have a problem I could use your help with. Twilight heard Rarity calling her and looked back at Spike, who was enthralled that Rarity kept coming by the library.

"Spike, stay here and finish that letter to Celestia." she said, telling him quickly what else to write down. "I'll be back in just a little while, don't leave the library, understood." Spike agreed, unhappy he couldn't see Rarity, but did as Twilight instructed. Twilight ran down the stairs to greet Rarity.

"Oh, Twilight, we should probably hurry, I'm all out of sleeping pills now." Rarity said, Twilight now had a confused look on her face. She didn't ask questions though, as Rarity took off in a matter of seconds headed to her shop. When they entered the shop, and back into the back room, Twilight looked around.

"You really did make a mess Rarity, I didn't think you'd do this in your own hou-." she cut off. "Is that a bear Rarity?" Twilight asked, disapproval in her eyes. "How did you even manage to get this damn thing in here anyway?" she asked noticing Fluttershy's coat and mane laying on the work bench. "And it didn't even seem that effective if you're going to make another dress, you really need to keep the coat intact, like you did with Rainbow."

"Oh yes, Twilight, but I needed to do something extra special for Fluttershy." Rarity smiled. "Besides, I only need your help with our little bear friend here." she said, Twilight rolling her eyes.

"Well, if it happens again, try not to make such a mess, and please don't have me come over again to get rid of another bear." she said, lifting the bear up with her own magic as Rarity opened the gate.

"Oh thank you so much Twilight, this means the world to me." Rarity said happily. "We could be business partners, you know." Rarity inclined.

"No, I'm no good with dresses, I think it's better if I'm a friend and just help clean up."