White Hawk's Fate

Chapter 5: It Ends With A Kiss

I was in a room with a map on a table. There were three black needles in three different locations. One was sticking into a mountain with what looked like the city from the events of last night, one was in the forest next to Ponyville, one was on the city in the clouds. there was three blue needles that were popping in and out of different places on the map. Then there was one glowing brighter then the sun, this one was in Ponyville. I reached my hand out to touch it, or at least I tried to. My hands didn't want to move. This scared me a little bit, because that usually never means anything good. I wanted to look around the room, but my attention was forced to the table.

I watched in horror as blood red needles popped up on the map every few seconds. The rate they were popping up was steadily increasing, as it did I felt my heart begin to pump faster. I was beginning to panic when the needles stopped appearing. I was just beginning to calm down when the needles began to enclose on the one space that was left untouched, Ponyville! As the needles moved they shredded the map behind them, the three black and three blue needles grouped around the golden one. When the red needles reached the area in which the light encompassed they began to burn up. Though it looked as if the golden needle was losing energy, its light started to fade and its color began to dull. When the light faded completely the red needles pushed in and started to break down the black, and blue needles as they tried to the red ones away from the gold one. Ultimately they failed though, when they started to break the one which used to be golden but was now a light grey. I could feel it, cut's and bruises appeared on my body as I panicked  trying to move but not being able to. My eyes began to bleed and I lost sight, I began to scream out my pain as my body was still being torn apart.

"Wake up sleepy head." A gentle voice next to me knocked me out of my dream. As my nerves began to work again I started to feel the fur under my arm, and the mane I gently stroked. Unfortunately my mind started working too and I started yelling unintelligible nonsense about what I saw in my dream. I also started squeezing the timid yellow pegasus in my arms, as if I was trying to keep my grip on reality.

"Gavin. GAVIN. GAVIN YOUR HURTING ME!" Fluttershy got louder as she repeated my name. The last time she said it snapped me out of my mental breakdown. I stopped squeezing her and I just stared at her for a moment, ashamed for hurting my friend.

"I'm sorry." Was the only thing I said. I feared that if I tried to say anymore I would start yelling again. My eyes started watering. Goddamn it Gavin! Look at yourself! Breaking down because of a dream! The thought didn't help, it only made me mad at myself. "I'm so, so sorry." After saying this I was pulled into a gentle hug from Fluttershy. Why? I hurt her and she tries to make me feel better?! God i must look pathetic. I only managed to make myself start crying again, the tears ran onto Fluttershy's head as she nuzzled my neck.

"It's ok little guy, I know you didn't mean to hurt me. You're just in a fragile state right now." All I could do to respond was nod my head. I wanted to confide in her what was wrong but every time I started too think about the dream I just had, it made me think about what I had done.

"I'm a murderer Fluttershy, how can I live with myself?" Fluttershy paused for a moment. She smiled when she came back from her thoughts.

"Because you did it to protect your friend." She said simply before she laid her head on my shoulders. I could feel my shoulder getting damp from her now flowing tears.

"But that wasn't even me, I wasn't in control! All I was doing was reacting on instinct, as if I were born to kill!" This entire time I had kept my eyes closed, fearing what I would see. I chanced a glance around me though, what I saw was a bunch of ponies shuffling their hooves awkwardly on the floor.

"Well what do you think that beast would have done to that filly if you hadn't got it's attention?" She asked me. My tears stopped falling, if only for a moment. As I thought of an answer. I sighed and broke her embrace. I looked right into her eyes and said.

"I'm better then that beast, because I had the intent of protecting. All that I could sense (and taste I added to myself) in his heart, was years of hatred and anger. He was only looking to cause as much pain to others." I choked back a sob. "As he felt. The pain I sensed from him! That is what I most regret, not trying to listen to his soul's cries for help." I wasn't trying to be poetic, his soul was crying for help and understanding. I just ignored it and added to its pain. I chanced another glance at the ponies around me and Fluttershy, most of them were shedding tears, Twilight and Applejack were still fighting back theirs.

"uhm, Fluttershy?" Twilight's voice sounded strained.

"Yes?" Fluttershy did not even try to sound strong she let all of her sorrow for me into her voice.

"The questions we were going to ask... Well... We won't force you to answer, we won't force you to stay, we just want to help you be happy right now. Is there anything we can do to help right now?" Fluttershy was about to answer but I beat her to it.

"We would like to be alone for awhile." Fluttershy nodded as she looked to her friends. Twilight could not hold back tears when she saw Fluttershy cry. She did a slight not of the head and gestured for her friends to follow her downstairs. When we were alone I didn't know what to say, I just wanted to be alone with her. The only gi... pony in this world who understood me even before Discord "Loosened my leash" as the saying goes. We just cried in each others shoulders for a while.

"You want to know why I broke down when I woke up?" Fluttershy nodded but then quickly added.

"You don't have to tell me if..." I cut her off.

"I want to, if I can't confide in you of all peop... ponies then I don't know who I can confide in." I then preceded to tell her all about the horrible dream I had. It was hard to retell it without starting to feel panic rise in my throat, but I did it non the less.

"That's... Horrible!" The concern evident in her voice. "But the dream does sound like it had purpose." I just gave her a confused look. During my story telling we had both managed to stop crying. "Well if this were just a normal nightmare Luna would have came, Luna is suppose to help people work through their nightmares. The only type of dream she's not allowed to enter is one of prophecy." I rolled my eyes and sighed.

"Ugh! First legend now prophecies! What has my life come to?" Fluttershy gave me the stink eye for a moment. "Ok I'm glad I met you Fluttershy, but like everything else has become confusing!" Fluttershy giggled as I waved my arms in the air. "What?! It's not funny! Well ok, maybe a little funny." I couldn't help but let myself laugh. We sat there joking around for awhile cheering each other up. Eventually I was content to just sit there stroking Fluttershy's mane as she laid her head on my lap.

"Can we come back upstairs now!?" came Pinkie pie's voice.

"Yeah, we're happy now!" I shouted towards the staircase leading into the actual library. Twilight came up first with a first aid kit floating in front of her. Following her was Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity and then Rainbow Dash, in that order. They all looked at me and Fluttershy with their eyebrows raised suggestively. Well accept for Applejack. She looked at the others and yelled at them.

"Get yer minds out'a the gutter guys!" As soon as I realized what she meant my face turned a shade of red I didn't even know existed. Fluttershy however just giggled. What the hell? How can you laugh at what they are suggesting?! I sighed. Everyone accept Applejack gave a sheepish smile, Applejack just looked ashamed of the others immaturity. Twilight was the first to compose herself.

"Fluttershy I'm gonna need you to move So I can address uh.."

"Gavin's" I told her

"Gavin's wounds."

"That won't be too necessary, almost all my wounds are healed already. The only one left is the one on my side, but I'm pretty sure that's gonna scar." Twilight looked at me as if I was an alien.

"How could your wounds be gone already?!"

"He did have a broken arm yesterday Twilight." Fluttershy chimed in. Twilight mind looked like it was it was in high gear as she tried to process how I could have healed so fast.

"You know what? I've seen weirder thing's" Everybody nodded to that. "So I'm gonna ignore the fact that you healed so quickly, just like I've been ignoring the fact that you're talking." I couldn't help but laugh. Which made Twilight's left eye twitch. "And now you're laughing..." Fluttershy's face contorted as she tried not to laugh. "What's so funny?! This right here" She pointed to me. "Is not natural!" Her other friends behind her were starting to snicker. The stink eye given by Twilight was Hilarious.

"Twilight I don't see why you're thinking into it, the only thing that matters is. This. Is. AWESOME!" she flew into the air and hit her head on the roof when she said awesome. This sent the others over the edge and into a fit of laughter. Seriously it was as if someone had released laughing gas into the room. I composed myself and adjusted to be in a more comfortable position with Fluttershy's head on my lap.

"You two look pretty happy, did anything fun happen while we were downstairs?" said Rarity as the rest of the group finally walked the rest of the way upstairs. I face palmed as my face turned a new shade of red for the second time in like ten minutes. It only turned darker after Fluttershy said.

"Rarity! It's not even our third date yet!" She put a hoof to her mouth as she snickered. These girls are already getting comfortable laughing at my humiliation... Just like home I suppose I held my head in my hands for a moment. Have to say though, it was pretty funny. apparently Pinkie Pie thought Fluttershy was serious though.

"Oh really!? How long have you been dating?" Pinkie bounced around us. Fluttershy started to blush and act like her usual self as she answered.

"Oh uh, n-no Pinkie i-it was a joke." Pinkie's mane and tail deflated a little bit. How they did I have no idea, I just rolled along with it.

"AWW! You would be such a cute couple! I mean look at you two, you look so adorable the way you lay in his lap and let him stroke your mane, oh well if you don't want him I'll take him!" Pinkie Pie had somehow gotten behind me and was now wrapping her fore legs around my neck, successfully choking me until she was pried off me by Twilight using her magic. Yep I must be crazy if I'm just accepting the weirdness going on around me!

"No Fluttershy you should let me have him!" Rainbow was about to grab me but Twilight grabbed her by her wings. "Come on he would be a great racing buddy!"

"Don't you even try it you two!" Twilight caught Applejack and Rarity moving out of the corner of her eye.

"I wouldn't dream of just taking him darling, I was going to buy him!" Rarity crossed her fore legs indignantly and releasing a short "Hmph!"

"Got anything to say Applejack?" Applejack just shook her head feeling ashamed.

"Is it bad that I find it extremely undignifying that ponies are arguing over who gets to keep me?" I asked only partially joking. Fluttershy giggled and leaned into my chest when she said.

"Only slightly, because you're already my little guy." She wrapped her fore legs around me as she nuzzled my cheek. She was being so cute it was hard to sound serious when I said.

"I'll tell you the same thing I told Discord, I am not a pet." (I kept out the fuck part) She stopped nuzzling my cheek and leaned back and looked into my eyes, she gave me a teasing smile as she said.

"Who says I meant it like that?" My blush had used all of the shades of red it could, so it now took to start using purple. Or was that Pinkie grabbing my neck again? Twilight pulled Pinkie off me to let my blush turn red. Rainbow Dash let herself fall over backwards as she laughed at me. Even Fluttershy was laughing!

"Why is it the girls who always like to laugh at my expense?" I sighed and let myself fall onto my side bringing Fluttershy with me. The laughing pegasus clung to me as if I and not the couch would cushion the fall. ha. Couch cushion! Fluttershy tilted her head to look up at me. I decided it was time for me to do a little bit of joking. " So honey, can I get a peck on the cheek?!" I said this with a toothy grin going from ear to ear. Her ears went flat against her head as she began to stutter.

"Well I, uh, I."

"Yes darling why don't you? We all think it very obvious what you meant." Said Rarity quick to get in on the joke. Fluttershy was starting to blush and she was rubbing her hooves together.

"Yeah Fluttershy, maybe I'll have to steal that kiss." Rainbow dash started flying slowly and dramatically over to me with puckered lips. When she was no more than 2 inches to my cheek Fluttershy's hoof shot out and hit Rainbow Dash atop the head knocking her onto the couch next to me.

"Why so protective Fluttershy?" Pinkie Pie had laid her head atop of mine and looked very curious. "She was only going to kiss his cheek, see like this." She moved her head to be besides mine and turned to face me with puckered lips. As Rainbow Dash, Pinkie was struck down the moment she even tried to kiss my cheek, her eyes were swirling around in there sockets and you could literally see stars going around her head. I was really starting to enjoy the show, that was until Fluttershy started getting teary eyed. Then I felt like a jerk.

"Oh I'm sorry Fluttershy, it was just a joke." I started stroking her mane, that always seems to make her feel better.

"I know," She sighed. "the problem is when I started it... I was only partly joking." She looked up at me while hiding behind her mane. I knew what she meant the moment the words left her lips. How? I think she's adorable but... Is this really a possibility? I mean how would this work? My heart though was combating my mind for dominance. My mind was pointing out flaws while my heart was using the same (but powerful) argument over and over again. Love knows no boundaries. Eventually they settled for verbal warfare using Fluttershy as the battleground.

"I... What would other ponies think about it? On my world this would be taboo as fuck but, I guess my world's logic wouldn't really apply here." I gave her a nervous smile. Taking note of the others watching us with hopeful looks in their eyes. Accept for Applejack, she was muttering something. Probably that if this worked out she would have zero chance getting me into a pen with another human to breed.

"I don't know how they would think."

"Relationships with animals aren't that uncommon here actually, as long as its species is intelligent it's quite accepted." Said the all knowing book worm Twilight Sparkle.

"Well do you guys think this would be ok?" Fluttershy asked sounding hopeful. My mind was starting to lose ground as my heart marched on.

"I'm fine with it, it gives me a reason to throw a party!" came the answer of the ever hyper Pinkie pie.

"What ever makes you happy darling!" Practically squeaked the fashionista Rarity.

"I think he could make you 20 percent cooler, so yeah I'm fine with it." Approved  Rainbow Dash. The answer from Applejack was slightly more hesitant to come. By that I mean Rarity had to kick her for her to finally answer with a meek "Yeah, yeah fine." Followed by something about breeding. With this final answer my mind succumbed to the possibility of being with Fluttershy.

"But aren't we the only one's who know he's intelligent?" Rainbow Dash pointed out. " I mean we can't just tell everypony, I mean by now the ponies who saw him change into a hawk are probably telling others about it. So they'll already be freaking out about that." Twilight looked as if she was thinking hard and long about something.

"You two could hide out for awhile, out of sight out of mind right? Of course they won't forget about it, but give them time and they'll realize that you aren't here to hurt anypony. When that happens then we can tell people about your intelligence." I thought about that for a little bit before I said that it sounded like a good plan. When I looked to Fluttershy she was staring at me with a wide grin. I returned her smile and pulled her close to me and began to scratch behind her ear. As I did she began to lean her head into my hand as if she was a dog, which looked completely adorable. She leaned into my chest and just rested there for a moment.

"Darling aren't you going to kiss him?" Asked Rarity, ruining a completely touching moment. Fluttershy didn't seem to care though, she stopped leaning on my chest and I tilted my head down towards her. She tilted her head to the side we both leaned into each others waiting lips, and we kissed.