Author's Note
My first fanfic for this site. this is a WIP but I hope you like it and I can't wait to see what people think
Btw is very loosely based on my own experiences with the paranormal 
Silver dust
It is a bright and sunny day in Ponyville. The grass is as green as it could be, the birds are chirping, and even the clouds the clouds seem fluffier than normal. A yellow pegasus mare with a pink mane and a pink tail stands in the field alone with a white bunny rabbit as they watch the clouds pass by. She sighs.
“It sure is a nice day, isn’t it Angel?” she says, patting the rabbit’s head.
“Yep, it sure is,” says a voice to the mare. She looks around but doesn’t see anypony, so she looks back at Angel.
“Did you say that, Angel?” she asks. He shakes his head.
“No, I didn’t say anything,” he says in a higher pitched voice. Fluttershy’s eyes light up.
“Angel, you can talk?” she says, then she looks frantically around.
“But wait, if you didn’t say that, who did?”
“I did,” says the voice, and a unicorn stallion appears in front of her. He is silvery-grey with a light-blue mane and tail. His eyes are light-blue as well, and he has some red spots around his back and neck with an image of a clock on his flank. He walks closer only for Fluttershy to back up a bit.
“She’s kind of shy,” says Angel. The stallion still approaches Fluttershy.
“Relax,” he says, “I’m Silver Dust.” He offers his hoof to help her up. Fluttershy looks up.
"What's your name?" he asks.
“Well, um, I’m…” she mutters.
Suddenly there’s a flash of light, and Fluttershy is in her bedroom, the real Angel kicking her and clearly terrified. Fluttershy yawns, gets up, and looks around. It’s the middle of the night, and even though it’s winter, it’s really warm in her room.
“What is it?” she asks. Angel points to the wall, shivering in fear. She looks and gasps as she sees a note appear on the wall, which reads:
“Your little friend stopped our conversation, so I guess I’ll have to meet with you tomorrow night.
yours truly,
Silver Dust”
Fluttershy squeals and hugs Angel tightly like a stuffed animal. For once Angel accepts it and hugs back, clearly just as scared and confused as she is. They leave the house and rush over to Twilight’s castle. Fluttershy bangs furiously on the door until Twilight opens it, blinking and rubbing her eyes with her hoof.
“Fluttershy?” she groans, "What are you doing here at 3:00 in the morning?”
“IWASDREAMINGABOUTANGELTALKINGWHENSUDDENLYAGHOSTINMYDREAMSWOKEMEUPANDGAVEMETHISNOTEONTHEWALL,” explains Fluttershy as Angel bounces up and down, shaking his arms.
“Huh?” asks Twilight. Fluttershy hands twilight the note that was left on the wall and Angel plays dead. Twilight reads it aloud for a second, then looks at Fluttershy, confused.
“I don't know what to make of this,” says Twilight.
“I don't either, it just showed up on my wall,” says Fluttershy. Twilight yawns again.
“Look, why don't you stay here for the night, and we’ll investigate in the morning.”
"Thanks," says Fluttershy.
"Don't mention it," says Twilight, and trots to her bedroom. Fluttershy leaves not long after towards the guest bedroom.
The next morning, Fluttershy and Twilight send a letter to Luna asking her about Fluttershy's dream last night, then head back to Fluttershy's cottage, taking spike and leaving angel behind.
“Why do I have to go?” Spike asks, wide-eyed and trembling.
“Because we need to know when Luna responds,” says Twilight, “besides, I’m sure we’ll be fine, Spike.”
“OH! I can’t believe I only brought Angel with me, I may have put my other animals in danger!” exclaims Fluttershy.
"What exactly happened last night, anyway?”
"Um, why?" asks Fluttershy.
"Because I need to know who that guy was.”
"Well, ok, but I need to know my animals are safe," Fluttershy says. She groans, then suddenly snaps.
"I'M COMING!" she yells as she grabs Twilight and flies quickly towards her cottage, leaving Spike behind. When they arrive, Fluttershy frantically opens the door, and when they enter the cottage the animals inside are all fine but seemingly spooked. Fluttershy let out a sigh of relief.
“See? Everything’s fine,” says Twilight.
“Yeah, but Silver Dust says he'll be back tonight,” says Fluttershy, "I'm scared.”
“Ok, then we’ll look where you saw the message.”
They trot upstairs to Fluttershys bedroom, where the temperature suddenly jumps several degrees.
"That's odd," says Twilight. she pulls a book out of her saddlebag titled “Unseen Creatures.”
"I didn't read anything about strange heat in this book," says Twilight. Suddenly the front door opens, and Spike comes running up the stairs, out of breath.
"Hey, Luna responded," says Spike, who burps up a letter addressed from Luna.
"And don't leave me like that next time.” Twilight levitates the letter and opens it, then reads the elegantly written cursive out loud:
"Regarding Fluttershy’s dream last night:
Of course I will help you and your friend. I shall do my best to provide as much information as I can.
Last night I was dragged out of her dream as it ended, and your friend stopped dreaming quite early on last night. It's an unusual occurrence, but it happens sometimes when one is woken up during their dream. Before she awoke, she was dreaming of being in a grassy meadow. I’m afraid that’s all I know."
"Odd," says Twilight, "that matches your description, but it ends far earlier."
Suddenly she remembers something.
"Is Discord around?" she asks, annoyed.
"No, the last time he was here was a couple weeks ago.”
"Well, there's definitely something strange going on here.”
"Y-Ya," says Spike, still shivering, “Hey Twilight, there wouldn’t happen to be any chores or anything back at the castle, would there?”
"You can leave now if you want, Spike," she says. Spike runs off and they investigate Fluttershy’s bedroom. She points at the wall where the note was, but there's just a nail there.
"That's where the note was," says Fluttershy.
"Uh-huh," says Twilight. She walks around the room searching, but it was still incredibly hot.
"What's with the heat?" Twilight groans.
"Ya, I can't stand it either," says Fluttershy. Twilight casts a cold spell on the room, but the magic has no effect.
"Ugh, we're practically being baked alive," says Twilight as she notices some red glowing sparks in her fur.
"Hang on," she says as she looks through the book again. After a minute she groans and slams the book shut.
"Nothing."
"It's even warmer than last night," says Fluttershy, "How about we try again tomorrow?"
"Good idea," says Twilight, "then I can find a spell to counter this somewhere."
"Wait, what about my animals?"
"We can bring them. I think they may actually be in danger here."
"Ok," whispers Fluttershy as she brings them all out. They head back towards the castle, where Twilight finds Spike and enters the castle. Fluttershy finds places for her animals, though a few seem to be scared of Fluttershy now.
Later that night, Fluttershy is still sleeping in the castle, but is having trouble sleeping.
"He's not coming," she repeats to herself. Eventually her eyes finally close, and suddenly she finds herself in a lush forest surrounded by the sounds of birds. The animals were gathered around her when a tall black alicorn mare approached her.
“Luna?” asked Fluttershy, “Why are you here?”
“Twilight told me about the strange events, and I came to investigate,” says Luna. Suddenly she turns slightly translucent.
“What’s happening?” Fluttershy asks.
“It appears something is dragging me out of the dream again,” says Luna. She becomes more and more transparent when Silver Dust appears.
“Hello young mare,” he says. Fluttershy backs up a bit.
“And hi Luna,” He sighs, sounding a bit disgruntled.
“Do I know you?” she says still fading out.
“No but there’s not enough time to explain why I hate you,” he says, and pretty much immediately after she vanishes. Silver Dust walks up to Fluttershy.
“Now, I believe we still haven’t been properly introduced,” he says. Fluttershy is shaking now.
“I-I’m F-Fluttershy" she says “w-what a-are you”.
“I don't know anymore myself,” he says, looking down, "but I know I'm not alive anymore.”Fluttershy squeals and tries to run, but Silver dust grabs her hoof with his magic.
“What’s wrong?” he asks.
"I'm scared," Fluttershy says. She accidentally hits his head with her hoof and he cries out in extreme agony.
"What's wrong?" asks Fluttershy. She then recoils as she sees a red liquid drip from the back of his neck, staining his coat, similar to his spots. He throws Fluttershy against a tree and holds his gash.
"I'm sorry! I didn't know that would happen!” she cries out.
“Do you have any idea, how much that hurts,” he screams as more blood stains the ground around him and begins getting closer to her.
Fluttershy cowers under the tree as Silver gets closer. Silver manages to calm down a bit as he sees the mare cowering against a tree. He walks over to her and sighs.
“Sorry,” he says, “I didn’t mean to hurt you.” But the mare can’t hear him.
Suddenly the dream starts falling apart as Fluttershy wakes up terrified. In her bed she wakes up and looks at the clock: it’s 4:00 AM. The room seems completely undisturbed. Not even a note was placed. She gets out of bed when her hoof lands in something wet and sticky. Upon realizing this Fluttershy jumps and hovers in the air. The floor was coated in a small portion of the blood that dripped off Silver dust.
Fluttershy screams as she sees the blood, and Twilight frantically comes in and sees the blood too.
"What happened?" she asks.
"He's still here," Fluttershy squeaks as the same heat felt in Fluttershy’s house fills the castle’s halls.
The blood that stains the soul
11 days have passed and Fluttershy is lying awake as her friends sleep. She has decided she's too scared to sleep, with or without that dream catcher. She quietly trotted out of the room avoiding Twilight. She wandered out the door in an attempt to get some night air, her eyes were tired and tears were flowing out from lack of sleep.
Her friends had tried to get her to sleep but to no avail. She wandered the empty streets of Ponyville as she started doing 7 nights ago. The air was calm and quiet, the lights in the streets barely even lit her way, but something was calling for her, for the last couple nights she had ignored it, but now its temptation overwhelmed her as she trotted towards it. Suddenly there was a unicorn at the end of the path walking towards her. At first she paid it no mind but as he drew closer she began seeing his silver coat, closer still she noticed it was stained with blood. By this point Fluttershy just stood there as he got closer. She didn't seem to care anymore.
"How come you're here" she asks.
"You need to wake up" he yelled. Fluttershy opens her eyes to find she had collapsed on the street and she had nearly fallen into the sewage river underneath the streets. She continued on following the thing that was calling her it had felt like years have passed since she had left soon the unicorn appeared again. Fluttershy tried waking up but she found she couldn't, in fact it seemed she had lost her feeling of being tired.
"Fluttershy!" Silver yelled rushing over to her. She squealed a little but then she remembered, he had just saved her. An odd feeling fell over her one that could not be described, as the unicorn ran to her.
"Fluttershy" he says as he stops in front of her and she notices he is no longer bleeding.
"What's going on" Fluttershy asks. "Why can't I wake up?"
"Because, this isn't a dream" Silver says. Fluttershy reaches out and touches his face it feels a lot more distinctly like fur and skin than when she had touched him in her dreams.
"Look behind you" says Silver. Fluttershy does and gasps as she sees her own body collapsed on the sidewalk a stream of blood flowing from its mouth. She screams louder than she ever has before but nothing seems to respond.
"I am so sorry" Silver cries hugging the mare "I didn't mean to kill you". Fluttershy shocked looks over at her body. She feels his tears stain her fur as he cries.
"Don't be so hard on yourself" she says as some blood flowed out of her mouth like it did on her real body and as she pushes him away.
"I'm the reason your heart, well you know" he says ashamed.
"Why did I have to follow you" he says.
"Why did I have to scare you so badly" he says.
"Why were you doing that stuff anyway" Fluttershy asks. Silver sighs and points around everywhere, there was not a single pony in sight not even dead ones.
"Oh" Fluttershy says, rubbing her foreleg.
"I didn't mean to sentence you to the same fate" he says downtrodden. Fluttershy looks at him seeing how depressed he is.
"Hey, at least you have me now" Fluttershy says. Silver looks up at her, but just continues to walk away. Fluttershy flies in front of him.
“It’s fine” she says “you didn’t do this on purpose”
“What about your friends” he asks “won’t they miss you”
“Yes” says Fluttershy, she sighs.
“But there’s something you can still help me with” she says. Spike was in the middle of the crystal caverns munching on gems to his heart’s content. Fluttershy and Silver dust appeared in front of him.
“Hey Fluttershy” he says with his mouth full “whose this guy”
“This is Silver Dust” she says
“Him” Spike yells. Fluttershy shushes him calming him down a bit
“I came to tell you that you won’t see the ghost if you go to Raritys anymore” Fluttershy says
“Oh cool” he says “why” Some blood trickles out of her mouth and she wipes it off.
“I’m sure you’ll find out tomorrow” she says “just go back to Twilight”.
"Goodbye" Fluttershy yells as she and Silver exit the dream. Rarity is in a large mansion showing off her designs to only the wealthiest of ponies. Fluttershy appears along with Silver dust.
“Fluttershy” she says excitedly “you seem well”
“Not exactly” Fluttershy says.
“Oh...well, can you introduce me to your friend over there” she asks.
“This is Silver dust” Fluttershy says.
“You mean that guy who was dripping blood in my sink all day yesterday” Rarity says angrily.
“Would you rather I bled on your carpet” he asked sarcastically.
“I just wanted to let you know, that you’ll never see him or me again” Fluttershy says hugging her.
They exit the dream just before Rarity can ask why and finally Twilight is the smartest pony in Equestria, when the 2 appear again.
“Fluttershy, what are you doing here?” Twilight asks ignoring Silver. Fluttershy hugs Twilight.
“I just wanted to say goodbye” she squeaks as she leaves the dream.
“Look somewhere around main street in the morning" Silver says. Fluttershy goes around like this to all her friends being more and more saddened until morning rises. as Twilight was instructed she came around main street and Fluttershy started to cry a little as Twilight found her body. Silver put his hoof around her.
"At least you got to say goodbye" he said "That's more than I ever got". Soon Rarity comes along and screams. Fluttershy trots over and looks down at her own body she sighs.
"I'll get to see them again some day, right?" Fluttershy asks.
"Not likely" Silver says.
"Our souls are forced to wander, theirs most likely won't be" he said.
"Why is mine" Fluttershy asks.
"I don't know" he says "you need to figure your unfinished business out for yourself". Fluttershy sighs.
"At least I'm not completely alone" she says. Silver manages to chuckle a bit.
"Neither am I" he says. The 2 wander off away from Fluttershys friends never looking back.
Author's Note
+10 points to those who can guess what Fluttershys "unfinished business" is
