The, uh, Pony Named Puppeteer
Chapter 1
Load Full StoryNext ChapterIt was an early spring morning. Celestia barely raise the sun when a yellow pegasus trotted near the entrance of the Everfree Forest with a saddle bag and a basket in hoof. Fluttershy lean into a bush, after nuzzling the bush a bit a family of rabbits hopped out and greet the pegasus. She lightly petted the male rabbit, his soft brown rubbing against her hoof. Using her wing, she open her saddle bag to pull out a small bag full of carrots to feed the family. "Here you go, eat up." she said smiling. The female rabbit sniff the small carrot, then she took at the carrot. She broke the carrot up into two and give one piece to the brown rabbit and on to herself. Fluttershy giggled and past out the rest the carrot out to the little ones.
Every year, at the beginning of spring, she wakes up extremely early to get every animal in the area as she possibly can. Because at the beginning of spring, hunting season starts. Eating meat was banned in Equestria so hunting for food was out of the question, but hunting for fur and/ or for game isn't. Fluttershy had excepted the fact that she can't save every animal from nature's food change, but other ponies hunting small animals just for games is just discussing for her. So every year, she goes anywhere and everywhere an wild animals is to rescue them before an pony with a gun comes and shots the poor thing. Over the years she gain a reputation of hiding animals in her house, so much so hunting season keeps on being moved earlier and earlier each year. In response, she does as well.
"Come on Mr. and Miss rabbit, I need to get you and your family out of here and into safety." she said rapping her hooves around the rabbit family. She snuggled the family a bit. "We need to get out of here before the mean old hunters come and kill you." She place the family into a basket she brought with a purple pillow in it, putting them softly in and patting them on the head. She pull the small blanket she had over them to keep them warm.
"There." Fluttershy smiled. "Now let me just-" Then, out of nowhere, she heard it.
{*SSCCCRREEEEEEEEECCHH!*}
A horrifying, demonic scream shouted out of the Everfree. Birds flied out franticly from the sound and other animals fallowed. Bushes and tree branches shook violently and dust flied off the ground from the animals fleeing from the sound. Fluttershy jumped four feet into the air in reaction of the sound. Quickly after she did, a black figure shot out of the Everfree and hit Fluttershy head on. She fell onto the ground face first right in front of the basket while the figure crash by a nearby stump. Fluttershy lift her head to check the rabbit family if they are okay, they were thankfully just shaken by the horrible sound. She turned to face whatever hit her, the figure just picking itself off the ground, shaking off the dust.
It was a tall, black filly, well, it looked like one anyway on first glance. But the last time Fluttershy had checked fillies didn't had such thin legs. The so called filly mane and tail was black, long, a little messy and wavy. Its wore metal shoes that looked similarly to ones that a royal solider would ware into battle. It wore a long, black cape, not long to covered its entire backside of its body but long enough to covered where its cutie mark should be, holding the cape together is an opal pin that glittered in the rising sun. It also wore a checkered black and white top hat with a red ribbon around it, on the ribbon was a black rose with a red feather connected on it. Now that she is thinking about it, was it a filly? The only reason that she came the conclusion that it was a filly because how the body was short like a filly does, but now looking at it the body was much thinner than a filly's body, way thinner. It looked like it didn't eaten in months, where she stand she could see its rib bones.
Once the being turned around to face Fluttershy, Fluttershy heart stopped completely. Its horn was the sharpest that she had ever seen, it looked like it could cut down a tree just by rubbing against it. It didn't had a mouth, nothing was there under its nose and eyes at all. Its eyes scared her the most. It was lifeless, it didn't look like any pony eyes she ever seen, it was small and purely black, but its third eye was out of place. It was place under its horn and the eye was a small white dot in a sea of bright multi colors.
It tilted its head to the left, flicking its ear a little. Intently, it moved right up to Fluttershy face, it didn't ran up to her or teleport with magic, it slide to her without moving its leg. Fluttershy screech, she quickly flew to a nearby tree while the rabbit family scattered. After a few seconds, she looked down shivering. The creature now was sniffing the basket where the rabbit once were. Fluttershy looked the creatures back leg, one its right leg was a huge bear trap clamped on shut. Oh dear, that's where that awful sound came from. Fluttershy thought putting a hoof over her mouth. One of the hunters must of place a bear trap in the forest without my knowledge and it must of step on it. Oh those damn hunters!
Fluttershy slowly flew back down to the ground. It may be an unknowable monster, but it was hurt and she needed to help it. Once she touch the ground, she tip toe towards the creature while using her wing to pull out some food out her saddle bag. Her plan was to bring the creature to her cabin by using food so she can get the bear trap off safely and not hurting the creature anymore. She was able pulled out a white cupcake with a rainbow frosting plop on top and some red cherry sauce in some area that Pinkiepie have given her the other day. She lifted the cupcake in front of her.
"Hey...little guy." She said. "Do you want cupcake?"
The creature lifted it head to face Fluttershy. It looks at her for a bit before heading towards the cupcake. This time it actually walked instead of sliding, its metal shoes click clacking as it walked. It dragged its bear trap leg to Fluttershy, but not in pain, it dragged it like it was carrying a heavy bag more than anything else. In fact the creature itself didn't seem to care about its injury. It seems more concerned about what happens to the cupcake more than its leg. The creature sniff the cupcake for a moment, then its horn lit up in a blending of colors to levitate the cupcake out of Fluttershy's hoof. The creature examine the cupcake before a loud ripping sound shot into Fluttershy's ear.
The flesh on the bottom of its head began to rip apart. Fluttershy stared at the horror as the ripping flesh revealed a row of long, sharp teeth. It open its now revealing mouth, rainbow liquid dripped out and hit the ground. The inner mouth of the creature glowed brightly white as silver tongue shot out with some more rainbow spit dripping off and wrapped around the cupcake. It pulled the cupcake into its mouth and shut its tight. As it chew the cupcake, the flesh around its mouth began to heal itself. It covered its mouth like it did before and once it was completely covered it look exactly like it did before.
It swallow the cupcake, then its third eye begins to flash. The small white dot disappear and full bright colors took over. It flash through all sort of colors in a rapped speed. It went like that for a minute before going back to its normal slowly mixing of colors and the small dot reappear. It looked back at Fluttershy quite happily, its tail begins to wag. The creature rubs its head against Fluttershy's chest, making sure not to hit her with its horn. Fluttershy petted the creature, discovering that its mane is surprisingly soft and smooth. Fluttershy softly smiled.
"I guess your nicer than you look." Fluttershy backed up from the creature. the creature look at her with a concerned look. "We need to go back to a safe place so I can take that awful bear trap off." said Fluttershy pointing at the trap. The creature gave her a look that said What bear trap? then looking at its leg the face change to a oh... expression. It turn back to her and nodded. The two, uh, ponies went back to the nice cabin near the forest to take care of the giant bear trap.
.......
Twilight Sparkle was sitting in her tree house sipping nice cup of green tea. She looked down at the "Princess Diary" they decided to call it anyway, to look back to past lessons she and her friends had made. Then, she hear the phone from the other side of the room where she was. She place her cup down on the wooden table that mach her small library home. She called out. "Spike!" Spike was on the other side near the phone, sorting through the books as Twilight ask him to do to order them as they once was. As important as the "Princess Diary" is, it look like a lot of the other books in her library so it was an hassle just fining the thing in the first place. Small dragon turn his head to face her, the large pilled of books stake against his arm, struggling to hold it up. "Yes?" Spike asked sweating.
"Could you get the phone?" Twilight asked taking another sip of her tea. Spike heavily sighed but nodded. He slowly walked towards a nearby table to place the books down. But he slip on a piece of paper that fell out of one of the books. He fell to the ground and the books flew. Spike painfully face planted onto the floor, unlike the books that fell gracefully onto the table. Spike lifted himself up and rub his head, then headed to the phone. He got to the small table near the front door, he pick it up to answered it. "Hello?"
"Um, yes." Said a familiar soft voice. "Could you put of Twilight on phone please?"
{*CRASH!*}
A sound of something crashing into something else egos through the phone. "Um, what's going on Fluttershy?" Spike said concern.
"It's kinda hard to explain on the phone. NO, DROP THAT! Um, could you just put her on the phone please."
Spike looked at phone concerned but turn around to Twilight's direction. "It's...For you." Spike said lifting the phone up. Twilight, catching the concern in Spike's voice, She quickly put her cup down, got up and trotted to the phone. She levitated the phone with her magic and place it up to her ear.
"Hello?" Twilight said. As she said that, a sound of somepony casting several laser spell at once came be heard. She could hear Fluttershy panicking in the background as sounds of animals running about. Twilight assumed that Fluttershy dropped the phone to handle whatever's going on. After a full minute of hearing pure chaos shouting from the phone, Fluttershy picked up phone.
"Sorry about that." Fluttershy said. "I tried to calm the animals down but understandably they won't."
{*CRASH! BANG! BANG!*}
"NO! NOT HURT THE BIRDS!" Fluttershy shouted, her voice cracking. Twilight pulled the phone away from her ear a bit. "Is everything okay?" Twilight asked. "Is Discord bothering you again?"
"No, no it's something else. I went to the Everfree early this morning to save some animal from hunters and this creature leap out of the forest and- DON'T EAT THE TABLE! DON'T EAT THE TABLE!!"
"A creature?" Twilight ask, her interest now peak. "What type of creature?"
"He looked like a filly but don't a filly. Anyway, he got a bear trap stuck to its leg and I decided to give him one of Pinkiepie's cupcakes to bring it back to my place. Once I did he went crazy, I think he is going through a sugar rush."
"I bets so, have you seen how Pinkiepie make any bakery? They filled to the brim with sugar and corn syrup."
{*ZAP!*}
"AAAAH!"
"Do you need me to come and help?"
"That's way I called. I want you to get the others to help with this, he's just so fast and REALLY good at magic and I don't think I can handle this myself."
"Don't worry." Twilight said getting some measurement tools and some animals and creature books into a saddle bag and rapping around herself, still holding the phone. "We'll be there in a min-"
{*KA-BOOM!!!!!*}
A explosion egos in the background of the phone, fallowing a scream. Twilight pulled the phone completely away from for a second before putting it back to her ear.
"Thank you Twilight!" Fluttershy said. "But I need to go, he set the kitchen on fire!" Then Fluttershy hanged up.
End of Chapter 1
Author's Note
Well this is different from the other stuff I did before...
Hello dear reader!
Like I said before, This is really different from the other things I written. This was inspired by The Puppet To Her Fame by Kaidan oddly enough.
Here's the link to the story https://www.fimfiction.net/story/89729/a-puppet-to-her-fame
Who and why? Well you have to wait and see now shouldn't you? Leave a comment of your thoughts, good or bad all comments are welcome! LOVES!![]()
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