The Blacklit Tale of Fighter Shy

THE BLACKLIT TALE OF FIGHTER SHY
Chapter Three: Reality Hits Hard
Written by TheCrimsonDM

Fluttershy lay on her back holding Rainbow Dash tightly. This wasn’t exactly how she imagined things would go after they made love for the first time, and it was starting to bother her deeply. Rainbow Dash had begun crying after they finished, and she didn’t stop crying until she fell asleep in Fluttershy’s legs. Still Fluttershy could hear Rainbow Dash crying in her sleep, as she held on tightly.

Fluttershy eventually got out of the bed and took a good whiff of her room. Something reeked in her room and after searching for a few seconds she found the scent belonged to her, and Rainbow Dash. They must have had done a lot if this was how strong their scent was afterwards. Fluttershy moved the window and cracked it open; after all they did, she needed to air out the room.

The next thing Fluttershy did was take a nice hot bath and clean herself thoroughly. After that she finally found herself able to get some sleep, but her dreams were filled with nothing but nightmares of pain, and monsters.

***

The next day Fluttershy woke up all alone, but then again Fluttershy woke up a little late. She moved on to her own agenda for the day, there were few things she needed to do around town. Fluttershy still couldn’t get the memory of Rainbow Dash crying like that out of her head. Why would Rainbow Dash act that way, did Fluttershy do something wrong, or was there something wrong with Rainbow Dash? Fluttershy couldn’t figure it out by herself, and she only knew one pony who had any more experience in this field then she did.

The walk to Rarity’s house was a rather quiet one, and it was pleasing to stand out in the cool wind. When Fluttershy entered Rarity’s shop she found the unicorn working on another dress. The bandage was still on her face, every time Fluttershy saw the bandage her heart began to hurt. She felt guilty over having not been able to help Rarity sooner.

“Fluttershy, darling…is there anything I could help you with,” Rarity asked.

“I…um…I uh…I have a personal question to ask you,” Fluttershy asked timidly.

“Anything for you my dear,” Rarity offered.

Fluttershy took a moment to collect herself before very asking, “is it normal to cry after sex?”

Rarity stopped working on the dress, her sewing needle fell to the floor and she turned around very slowly asking, “I’m sorry…but I believe I misheard you...did you just ask if it was normal to cry after…”

Fluttershy nodded vigorously hopping to avoid needed to answer any questions from Rarity. There was an awkward silence filling the air for a few long moments before Rarity finally said, “sometimes…but in order to answer your question, I would need to know more about the circumstance…but I don’t think I am the right pony for this con-“

“I had sex with Rainbow Dash last night, and she began crying afterwards and now I’m worried that I did something wrong,” Fluttershy admitted quickly; her face warming up from embarrassment.

Rarity’s bottom lip began to quiver for a few seconds before she closed her eyes and recomposed herself before saying, “okay…so Rainbow Dash was crying huh…well darling it’s pretty simple why she would be crying. Every relationship she has had so far has fallen apart in the worst ways. First it was Gilda, then it was Lightning Dust…so she is probably scared to death of ruining her friendship with you.” Rarity was quiet for a moment before asking, “so…you love Rainbow Dash, don’t you?”

Fluttershy nodded and explained, “I have…had feelings for her for a long time now…but last night wasn’t like how I imagined it would be.”

Rarity sighed and said, “and here I was still holding out some manner of hope that you were slightly interested in somepony else…”

Fluttershy opened her mouth to ask Rarity what she had meant when Rarity quickly added, “and how about you and Pinkie Pie, did you two make up yet?”

It took a few seconds for Fluttershy to adjust to the new question and realize what Rarity was asking. “Oh…yes, or I mean…we should be…I know that getting angry at her was…um…terrible of me…I shouldn’t have done that.”

“And what about punching her in the face? Did you apologize for that?” Rarity asked.

Fluttershy’s heart skipped a beat. There was no way that Fluttershy had hurt Pinkie Pie…not like that. All Fluttershy did was almost yell at her, and even that wasn’t too serious. Fluttershy tried to think back to the day Pinkie had made Fluttershy mad…and she was having a hard time recalling exactly what happened.

Fluttershy laid down and covered her head as a terrible fear crawled along her heart with sharp claws. Something was horribly wrong and she had no idea what it was, Fluttershy looked up at Rarity with pleading eyes and begged, “what happened between us?”

Rarity took a step forward and stopped. Rarity looked at Fluttershy with a careful expression before saying, “darling…what do you remember happening at Pinkie’s?”

“I was coming in to buy a piece of cake…and Pinkie Pie said something…um…maybe it was about animals being injured. And the next thing I remember I was leaving mad because she said something mean…I went to Twilight for help after that,” Fluttershy explained.

Rarity then asked, “and what do you remember of what happened to us in Manehattan?”

“We got mugged, almost. I stopped them all, and saved you…but I was too late to stop them from cutting your face…I’m so sorry,” Fluttershy said. She couldn’t tell why, but for some reason every word that had just come out of her mouth felt wrong, almost like a dirty lie.

“So you truly don’t remember the hospital? What about your concussion?” Rarity asked.

Fluttershy looked up into Rarity’s eyes and saw a lingering pain in them, something was wrong. Fluttershy didn’t remember any hospital, or a concussion but she did get hit pretty hard…so maybe she got one during the fight. Fluttershy shook her head and asked, “what happened at the hospital?”

Rarity laid down and looked on the verge of tears as she explained, “we have tried to explain it to you several times now…and each time you have had…poor reactions. When Pinkie Pie sat you down and forced you understand what had happened to us…well you attacked her.”

That couldn’t be true, it had to be a lie. Fluttershy would never hurt one of her friends. She stood up, a flash of anger overtook her and she screamed, “AND WHAT EXACTLY DID SHE TELL ME! WHAT COULD SHE SAY TO MAKE ME ATTACK HER!”

Rarity flinched back, her eyes grew wide in terror and Fluttershy stood there. The anger that was in her faded quickly, and was replaced by a deep fear, a fear of herself. Fluttershy took a few steps back and said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to yell…oh Celestia I’m so sorry.”

Fluttershy turned and fled out the door, leaving Rarity behind. She couldn’t risk endangering one of her best and closest friends. Fluttershy wanted so badly to go home and cry, but she couldn’t do that just yet. She still had to make this up to Pinkie Pie in any way possible.

***

Pinkie Pie was working the Sugarcube Corner counter like usual, and she was looking in just as poor condition as the day before. Fluttershy walked towards her and said, “Pinkie Pie.”

Pinkie Pie turned to face her, her eye grew wide, the other one didn’t open as wide. There was a new bandage on Pinkie’s nose. Pinkie’s ears flattened as she took a few nervous steps back and said, “Fluttershy…what…um…what can I do to help you?”

The fear was clearly etched into Pinkie’s face, she was scared of Fluttershy. Fluttershy looked away shamefully and said, “I’m sorry…I never meant to hurt you…I don’t know what happened, I don’t even remember attacking you…if there is anything I could ever do to make this up to you…please let me.”

Pinkie Pie’s ears stood up a little and her eyes softened as she asked, “do…do you really mean it?”

Fluttershy nodded. Pinkie Pie gave Fluttershy a tiny smile and explained, “I’ve never had anypony punch me before…I know that what I did was wrong now…I won’t ever do it again…but if you are serious about me forgiving you…well just follow me.”

Pinkie Pie turned and shouted towards the kitchen, “Misses Cake, I’m taking my break.”

After a second Misses Cake walked out and said, “okay, Pinkie Pie. Take as long as you need.”

Pinkie Pie then nodded for Fluttershy to follow her upstairs.

***

Pinkie Pie shut her bedroom door behind Fluttershy and said, “okay, I already forgive you, but if you are serious about making this up to me, then I want to show you something. Something that I discovered a long time ago thanks to Dash. It will calm you down when you are angry, cheer you up when you are depressed, and help you feel better when you are in pain. It’s a little herb that grows in the Everfree. Zecora sells it to adults sometimes, I order some to keep my depression from getting to me.”

“You’re depressed?” Fluttershy asked.

Pinkie walked over to her bed and pulled out a small shoe box. She then walked over and sat across from Fluttershy before setting the box down in between the two of them. Pinkie Pie then said, “yeah…I have some major depression, and…well you saw a little bit of it once. Thankfully I have this stuff to keep me from falling apart again. I think it will help you too.”

Pinkie Pie opened the box and revealed a small white pipe, and a plastic zip lock bag containing some ground up blue stuff, it reminded Trixie of tobacco. Pinkie Pie took the pipe and put some of the blue stuff in it and explained, “this is called a pipe, and you use it to smoke stuff with. Um, and this stuff is pretty good for you, it’s got some funky zebra name but I just call it Smokey Joke. I’ll show you how to use it properly and all…it should be fun.”

Fluttershy didn’t like the idea of smoking, even if it was one of Zecora’s medicinal brews. At this point though; she was willing to do anything to make it up too Pinkie Pie; even if it meant smoking some weird blue stuff with her. Fluttershy nodded and said, “I’ll give it a try…for you.”

***

About ten minutes later Fluttershy found herself leaning back against Pinkie’s bed frame and staring up at the ceiling. The pipe was in one hoof and she blew out another blue colored cloud of smoke. Fluttershy giggled at the blue colored smoke, it was silly. Her entire body and brain felt more relaxed than ever before, and she wished she would have known about this along time ago.

“So do you like it?” Pinkie asked next to her.

Fluttershy passed the pipe over to Pinkie and said, “Pinkie Pie…this is like…the most awesome thing ever.”

Pinkie took a puff of the smoke, held it in for a few seconds and the released her own cloud of blue smoke. Pinkie’s eyes had a fait blue glow to them, a side effect of smoking this stuff. Fluttershy giggled again, and Pinkie joined in. As Pinkie passed the pipe back over to Fluttershy she said, “I’ll bring you your own pipe and baggy of this stuff later. I’ll have Z write a label on it, cus I don’t remember its real name for crap.”

Fluttershy giggled a little and said, “crap,” she giggled again at how silly that word was. As Fluttershy sucked in another deep breath from the pipe she wondered in amazement at how, not any longer than ten minutes ago she was upset over all sorts of things. And now she was feeling happy, relaxed and peaceful.

Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie relaxed and continued smoking like this for awhile until they both got extremely hungry. Pinkie Pie decided it was time to go eat some cake with Fluttershy. There was no arguing with free cake.

***

A few days passed by uneventfully. Fluttershy had not seen Rainbow Dash since the night she had spent with her, and now it felt to Fluttershy like Rainbow Dash might’ve not been interested in her in the first place. Fluttershy was very thankful for Pinkie’s gift, as the Smoky Joke was the only thing keeping Fluttershy from having a total breakdown. But there was one problem; whatever Rainbow Dash had done to Fluttershy’s body had made her libido over active, and now all she wanted to do was find Rainbow Dash and be intimate with her all over again.

Fluttershy stood in her kitchen placing a small bowl of delicious greens, and carrots in front of Angel Bunny. Angel crossed his legs and gave Fluttershy an angry stare. Fluttershy lowered her head to be on eye level with the bunny as she explained, “I am not going to make you a special treat everyday Angel. I really don’t mind making one for you every once in a while, but right now I don’t feel up to it.”

Angel looked away and pushed the meal away with a foot. Fluttershy let out a sigh and pulled away saying, “fine, you don’t have to eat if you are not feeling hungry. But I refuse to make you anything else right now. If you really don’t want it, then you don’t have to eat.” Fluttershy then walked away and took notice as Angel Bunny reluctantly began eating the salad she had prepared for him.

Fluttershy heard somepony knocking at the door, and she imagined Rainbow Dash finally coming back to her. Fluttershy ran to the door and swung it open. She saw Rainbow Dash standing there. Fluttershy’s heart was soaring as she said, “Rainbow, I missed you so much. Where have you been?”

Rainbow Dash didn’t meet Fluttershy’s gaze as she explained, “Fluttershy…I…I think we made a…”

Fluttershy’s body was still craving Rainbow Dash’s touch, and now she knew that if she could only make their intimacy better then Rainbow Dash would feel better. Fluttershy turned around and wrapped her tail around Rainbow Dash’s neck, pulling her inside the house. Rainbow Dash didn’t follow at first as she said, “Fluttershy, no. We can’t…what is that smell?”

Rainbow Dash looked down at Fluttershy’s rump and her eyes widened, Fluttershy knew that she had been waiting impatiently for Rainbow Dash’s touch. Fluttershy’s hooves were no where as nice as Rainbow Dash’s, and pleasing herself had been unfulfilling these last few days.

Fluttershy’s face was warming up a little as Rainbow Dash continued to stare, but her lower region was heating up even more. Rainbow Dash leaned in a little and began smelling Fluttershy’s scent before saying, “mmm…I…”

Fluttershy lead Rainbow Dash into the house, and began bringing her up the stairs when Rainbow Dash suddenly stopped walking and said, “no we can’t do this. I have to fight it…Fluttershy we need to talk.”

Fluttershy took a few steps backwards and her rump bumped into Rainbow Dash’s muzzle. Fluttershy feigned clumsiness as she lied saying, “oh, no. I’m sorry, I didn’t meant to do that.”

Fluttershy turned around, releasing her tail from Rainbow Dash’s neck. Rainbow Dash’s muzzle was slightly damp now, and Rainbow looked dazed. Fluttershy walked up and said, “let me help you with that.” Fluttershy slowly began licking Rainbow Dash’s muzzle clean.

Rainbow Dash made a sudden move and jumped into the air saying, “no, not again. Fluttershy I won’t let you force me like that again.”

Fluttershy wasn’t sure what was going on, didn’t Rainbow Dash like having sex with her? “W-w-what are you talking about? I thought you enjoyed it?”

Rainbow Dash’s head lowered but she kept herself hovering in the air while saying, “I…I didn’t want to…I tried to push you away but…Fluttershy you’re too strong. I didn’t want to hurt you, or anything.”

“I’m too strong? But I can barely lift a few bunnies,” Fluttershy proclaimed.

“I have seen you drag injured Manticores back to their caves. It’s like you have this great reserve of strength that you can only tap into when it’s absolutely necessary,” Rainbow Dash explained.

Fluttershy sat down, her heart was beginning to hurt. “Did…did I really…force you?”

“That’s how it started…but after a few seconds…look I’m not that strong Fluttershy, you started making me horny and I couldn’t stop myself…I didn’t come here to have sex with you, I wanted to get to know you a little more…I can’t handle fast relationships,” Rainbow Dash explained.

“I know you had bad relationships in the past, but it won’t be like Gilda, or Lightning Dust. I promise, I won’t do anything bad,” Fluttershy pleaded.

Rainbow Dash turned and said, “we haven’t seen each other in three days…and the first thing you did was try to have sex with me again. I’m sorry Fluttershy, but if you can’t even take things slow for me…then we can’t be together.”

Rainbow Dash had tears running down her face as she flew out Fluttershy’s door. That was it, Fluttershy had ruined her relationship with Rainbow Dash. She had moved things to quickly, all she wanted was to have all of Rainbow Dash…and now she had none of her.

Fluttershy began crying as she ran into her bedroom. There was nothing she could do now that she was alone, she had hurt Rainbow Dash by wanting her too much. Fluttershy jumped onto the bed and began sobbing into her pillow, she had never meant to hurt Rainbow Dash. She looked over to her dresser and saw her green pipe sitting on top of it. She knew that if she smoked a little Smokey Joke that she would feel better, but it wouldn’t solve the problem…but maybe the problem was unsolvable.

***

A half hour later Fluttershy walked into Rarity’s boutique and said, “hey, Rarity.”

Rarity was still working on the same dress, it was beginning to look closer to completion. Rarity glanced at Fluttershy and nearly spit her bit as she exclaimed, “Fluttershy, what happened?”

Rarity trotted over to Fluttershy and quickly wrapped her up into a tight embrace saying, “Your eyes are red, were you crying?”

Fluttershy wrapped her legs around Rarity and said, “yeah…I messed things up with Rainbow Dash. I guess I should’ve taken things slower…”

Rarity began sniffing Fluttershy’s mane and pulled back she was cringing at something. Rarity then said, “um…well yes, sometimes things like that happen…but Rainbow Dash is also a special case. She doesn’t seem to mind being intimate with ponies, if it’s for fun. But what she looks for in a partner is a pony who doesn’t want her for her body…”

Fluttershy sniffled a little as she said, “I think I forced her to…move too fast…I didn’t mean to…but she said she that I was too strong.”

Rarity looked worried as she asked, “was she…fighting you?”

“No…and she acted like she enjoyed it after we started…I’m so confused,” Fluttershy explained.

Rarity looked a little less worried as she said, “I know it’s embarrassing, but tell me exactly what happened that night, please.”

***

After telling Rarity about all the events involving Rainbow Dash in the past few days Rarity seemed to get a better understanding of what was going on. Rarity let out a sigh and said, “I’m sorry darling, but I think Rainbow Dash is simply unable to handle a relationship of that magnitude with you…you had a wonderful first time with her, but I think she disappeared for a few days so that when she came back to you…well I believe she had already decided that she couldn’t be with you.

“I don’t think she expected you to try and have intimacy with her again so soon either. She might do lewd things with her friends, and sometimes strangers, but she wants something more from a special somepony. It’s also possible that she doesn’t really know what she wants…I think you might be better off just staying friends with her. If you continued to press her like this, it could damage your friendship.”

“But…is it really that wrong to want to be physical with her?” Fluttershy asked feeling confused.

Rarity shook her head and said, “it’s not wrong to be physical with the one you love, but Rainbow Dash…she remembers how bad of shape we were in. There are so many problems with this relationship right now, that it may not ever be possible between you two.”

Fluttershy whimpered and Rarity added, “but…there is somepony else who is still interested in you.”

Fluttershy looked at Rarity, and watched as Rarity nervously twirled one of her long purple curls around her hoof. Fluttershy then asked, “who?”

Rarity began blushing lightly as she said, “well…um…it’s…I am. I am in love with you Fluttershy.”

Rarity closed her eyes tightly and looked scared after saying that. Fluttershy wasn’t sure what to think now. If Rarity truly had feelings for her, it could be so wonderful…after all they were such close friends. Fluttershy remembered hearing that the best of relationships started out as the best of friendships. Fluttershy wanted this to work, and was determined to not ruin this relationship like she did with Rainbow Dash.

“I love you too,” Fluttershy said at length. “I want this to work so badly, but I don’t want to ruin this for us…so…um…I’ll let you decided how far we should go. And I promise to wait until you are ready to move our relationship to each new level…and…stuff.”

Rarity looked relived and a little surprised as she said, “oh darling…no I mean…honey. I…thank you for not rejecting me. I was so sure that you only liked pegasi.”

Fluttershy leaned in a little closer to Rarity and said, “of course not, I like all kinds of mares.”

Rarity smiled and blushed a little harder. Fluttershy wanted so badly to kiss her, but she held still and waited for Rarity to decide what was acceptable. Rarity leaned in slowly and pressed her lips against Fluttershy’s. They kissed once, then twice, then on the third time Rarity moved her burning hot tongue into Fluttershy’s mouth.

They continued kissing this way until Fluttershy felt herself getting very warm someplace other than her mouth. She pulled away. “I…that was amazing. Maybe a little too amazing.” Fluttershy said as she looked down at her shamefully wet private place.

Rarity gasped and said, “but, but, but all we did was kiss. Was I really…um…that good?”

Fluttershy nodded and realized she needed to go home and take care of this warm little problem of hers. “I…um…I should go home and wash up…”

Rarity raised an eyebrow and said, “is that all your gonna do?”

Fluttershy’s face began burning up as she said, “well…I mean…its warm…and…I need to take care of it.”

Rarity let out a sigh and said, “I can’t have you running all the way home with your scent being carried to every stallion in town now can I. You may use my shower, to take care of your…problem…don’t forget to clean yourself thoroughly afterwards though. That scent is very powerful, and could be rather…embarrassing if you let it hang around town.”

Fluttershy felt embarrassed but smiled and said, “thanks…I…um…this is so embarrassing.”

“I know dar-…honey. But you need to take care of it…now. It smells really good and I don’t want to be tempted by your wonderful body any longer, please go clean up,” Rarity admitted.

Fluttershy nodded and began walking upstairs trying to use her tail to cover her marehood. She had to admit though, that it felt wonderful to hear Rarity say that she was tempting. Fluttershy had never felt truly attractive before, and now…she really liked Rarity.

***

The day of the next tournament finally arrived. And Fluttershy had once again become the Crimson Fighter. It was time for her to face her second challenger. The ring had been covered in a thick layer of sand for this battle; Fluttershy felt the uneasy ground beneath her hooves. This battle might be hard for her to win, if not for her ability to fly.

Her opponent entered the ring and Fluttershy stared at the familiar mare. The mare she faced had a teal coat, brown short cut hair, and she was wearing a black bandana. Fluttershy’s entire system had been shocked hard as she stared at the pony that was responsible for the attack over in Manehattan.

The announcer’s voice came over the loud speaker and said to the large crowd of ponies watching the ring. “Now entering, Frailty; the infamous leader of the Black Hoof gang.”

The mare’s cutie mark was that of a blue watery heart, three water drops were seen underneath the heart. The mare grinned as she looked at Fluttershy, Fluttershy scowled at her. This was going to be more than just a fight for money and power, it was a fight to reclaim her honor.

The sound of a bell ringing sounded the start of the fight. Fluttershy charged head first towards Frailty and going on her hind legs at the last second, swung her hoof downward catching Frailty in the face. Frailty reeled back, and Fluttershy pressed forward with the intent on striking again. Frailty suddenly jumped forward catching Fluttershy off guard and knocking her down onto the ground.

Frailty was now on top of Fluttershy and smacking her in the face repeatedly with her hooves. Fluttershy felt the blows hit her, but she didn’t feel pain, she only felt a numbness spreading over her face. Fluttershy reached out her hooves and caught Frailty in the neck. The mare rolled back off of Fluttershy and began rubbing her neck and breathing harsh shallow breaths.

Fluttershy stood up, and tasted something coppery, and gross in her mouth. Fluttershy spit it out of her mouth and saw blood. She put a hoof to her lip and discovered her mouth was bleeding. A blanket of rage covered Fluttershy’s heart as she turned to face Frailty and charged a second time.

This time Frailty tried to move out of the way but was too slow as Fluttershy began attacking. Standing on her hind legs Fluttershy began hitting Frailty repeatedly in the face. All Fluttershy could think of; was hitting Frailty’s face, over, and over, and over again. Frailty began blocking the blows and finally caught Fluttershy’s in a grapple and threw Fluttershy onto the ground hard.

Frailty kicked Fluttershy in the side. Fluttershy felt pain in her ribs and managed to roll out of the way just in time to avoid a second blow. Fluttershy flapped her wings hard and flew into the air. Fluttershy’s side hurt too badly to do anything fancy, so she just flew up higher and higher. Finally she turned and sky dived towards Frailty.

Frailty watched with careful eyes preparing to dodge at the last second. When she did, Fluttershy corrected her path and crashed head first into her. Fluttershy’s head collided with Frailty’s. Frailty was sent rolling away and Fluttershy collapsed.

A few seconds went by before Fluttershy’s head stopped swimming and she managed to pull herself up off the ground and stood unevenly on the sand. The crowd was cheering for her and she basked in there applause. The countdown began and Fluttershy waited until it reached zero. The announcer called out, “and The Crimson Fighter does it again. Now she will move on to the finals. Will she be able to beat her next opponent, come back next week to find out.”

***

Fluttershy was walking through the town, her side hurt, but at least she was able to breathe. She was having a hard time walking though, and flying was out of the question as the extra effort made her ribs scream in pain. The numb feeling in her face was giving way slowly to the pain as the adrenalin left her body. But she had a saddle bag with some more money in it, so that was something nice.

At some point Fluttershy’s rips began to hurt even more, and she realized that she needed to find a place to rest soon. She looked around herself on the dark road, and realized that the closest place to rest at, would be Rarity’s. Fluttershy forced herself to walk through the pain as she changed direction and walked towards Rarity’s.

When Fluttershy finally arrived at Rarity’s she had began limping, Fluttershy felt the door. It was usually locked at night, as a precaution against thieves but Fluttershy knew where Rarity hid the extra key. Fluttershy opened the door and limped in. When inside Fluttershy dropped the key on the floor and shut the door. She needed to get Rarity’s help.

Fluttershy opened her mouth to shout, but her insides hurt when she tried to make a loud noise. Fluttershy decided to continue limping towards the stairs. She took a few steps before her legs gave in and she fell against a mannequin knocking it over with a loud crash. Fluttershy lie still for a few moments, whimpering in pain.

After a few long dreaded moments Rarity made her way down the stairs, her horn was light up brightly and she looked both terrified, and determined. Rarity called out, “Sweetie Belle, is that you?...whoever is there come out now, or else you will get a laser blast to the face.”

Fluttershy called out weakly, “Rarity…help me.”

Rarity saw Fluttershy lying on the floor and her face became pale, or at least as pale as a white unicorn could be. Rarity ran over to Fluttershy and kneeled down by her side asking, “oh my Celestia, what happened honey?”

Fluttershy gave a little laugh before saying, “I got into a fight…I beat the crap out of that mare from Manehattan.”

Rarity looked worried and said, “what…what are you talking about. You can’t fight, why would you even do that?”

Fluttershy lie still and said, “I’ve been fighting in this tournament thing…I’ve been getting some money that way, and it feels good to let my anger out. But I’m hurt…I need help.”

Rarity’s lip was quivering as she said, “I-I-I’ll do the best I can…but…oh dear…we will have to talk about this.”

Fluttershy nodded and said quietly, “okay. But nopony can know about this, it’s our secret. And I’ll need to take another bath here tonight; I have to wash the dye out of my mane.”

Rarity began petting Fluttershy’s mane and said, “okay honey, we will get you cleaned up, and with my special touch, nopony will even know that you were hurt.”

Fluttershy really enjoyed Rarity’s company, even more so now that they were officially a couple. She really was lucky to have a special somepony like Rarity in her life. Even if it still hurt to know how she screwed up with Rainbow Dash, she had been given a second chance with Rarity, and there was no way she would screw it up this time.