I waved goodbye to my friends as they left for their homes, we had a small get together for some fun after what happened at Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight was apologizing to me since she believe that it was her fault that everything happened, something that Pinkie calls ‘The Night of Flutterbat!’.
I didn’t really understand what she means about that, I don’t remember what happened really but I was told that I turned into a pony version of a vampire fruit bat. I guess that made sense since for the last few days I had an odd craving of apples.
I closed the door and headed into the kitchen and saw a bowl full of apples with a note in front of it.
Just in case!
-Pinkie Pie :)
I chuckled and shook my head, I went and took one of the apples and took a bite. I chewed the apple in my mouth with a hum, it was good! I finished the apple and went out to help with my animal friends.
Mr. Squirrel wanted to move to a new bigger tree for his new kids, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny needed more food and bedding, the birds wanted to see if their new song is good and Harry wanted to play a game of chess, he’s really smart and the win between us is 15-13 his favor. I’m just happy that I get to help them all, though Angel has been a bit fussy lately, he been also picky about his food and living space.
“Come on Angel, just one bite please and you can go off.” I told him. He eyed me for a second and at the food, he pulled out a book and shows me a picture of the meal I gave him. I saw that there was one thing missing from the dish. I sighed at this.
“Alright, give me a moment.” I told Angel. I turned and headed into the kitchen to get the one thing, a pitted cherry. As I begin to put the cherry I begin muttering to myself.
“Oh Angel, why do have to be a pain all of the time, you act like a spoiled child.” I said annoyed. I stopped what I was doing to go over what I just said. Was I annoyed with Angel? I'm never annoyed with him.
I put a hoof to my head to check to see if I was coming down with something. I feel fine and I don't feel warm so where did that come from? I pitted the cherry and turned to the living room, I took two steps before something pulled at the back of my head. I looked back and saw that no one is there, just a window to the Everfree. I shook my head and headed out to the kitchen, what was that about?
"Thanks for coming to help out sugarcube, ah really appreciate it.” Applejack said.
“Oh it's no problem Applejack, I'm happy to help.” I told her. We trotted out into the apple fields, we came up to one of the trees and I saw that there was bats in said tree.
“It seems not every bat knows about the bat sanctuary ‘ere on the farm, so uhh, mind telling them that.” Applejack asked.
“Oh no problem.” I said to her. I flew up to the tree and saw about ten or twelve fruit bat eating the apples. “Umm excuse me.”
One of the bats turned to me and frowned. It started squeaking at me.
“Umm yes sorry to bother you but umm you see you have to leave this tree.” the bat cross his wings squeaking some more.
“Yes I know it's an apple tree, it's also my friends-”
More squeaking.
“Yes your family is here but-”
Some more squeaking.
“Your entire family yes but let me-”
Even more squeaking.
“Yes I understand that you're all hungry so allow me-
Squeaking.
“I see but-”
Squeaking.
“I-”
Squeaking. I closed my eyes and started to shake.
“Would you please stop talking!!” I yelled a bit louder then normal. I saw the fruit bat reared back at it and I got the attention of all the other bats as well. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “Thank you, now you see there's an fruit bat sanctuary here on the farm, I would like to ask you all to move over there.”
The bat that I was talking to shook his head and squeaked at me. I frowned and pointed my hoof over to my right.
“It’s right over there, I can see the sign from here.”
They all blinked at me and looked at where I was pointing, sure enough there was a fenced off area and in front of it there was a sign with a bat on it. The rest of the bats glared at the one bat as he started to panicked. He squeaked an apology and flew off with the rest of them to the sanctuary. I sighed and flew back down to Applejack, whose jaw is now on the ground.
“Umm Applejack, is something wrong?” I asked her. She shook her head a bit and stared at me for a minute.
“Ah… ah never saw you raise your voice, and that loud before.” she said. I blinked a few times, was I that loud? As I thought about it I felt the same pull from before in my head again. I looked towards the direction where the pull was coming from.
“Umm.. ya alright there?” I heard Applejack asked me. I shook my head and looked at her.
“Oh umm yeah I just…” how do I tell her? I better not “... I think I should go home now and rest.”
“Ah see, well I don’t blame ya with what happened yesterday, well ah hope ya feel better Shy.” Applejack said. She waved goodbye to me as I flew off back home. As I was flying my eyes went to the Everfree as the pull began to become stronger. I shook my head a bit and flew a bit faster.
I got back home and opened the door. I saw Harry and Mr. Beaver on the couch playing a game of cards before they turned to look at me and wave. I waved back and headed upstairs to my room; as I opened the door I went in and jumped in bed, resting my head on the pillow I slowly closed my eyes to sleep.
The pull became stronger. I felt a tug every few minutes as I slept, I tossed and turned in bed as the pulls continued. I opened my eyes and saw that it was late and dark out, I sat up in bed and groaned that I woke up. I jumped out of bed and headed for the kitchen, maybe a glass of water would help.
I headed downstairs and headed for the cupboards for a glass, as I did I felt another pull but this time it felt something else, a feeling. A feeling of fear. I looked out of the window into the dark forest, I know I shouldn't go out there in the middle of the night but what if somepony was in trouble? Or an animal? Or both!? I went to the door quickly opened it and headed out into the forest. I headed down the path which I was most familiar with, I know Twilight said going into the forest is a bad idea but I also know that some of my animal friends live in the forest and sometimes I come and check on them.
As I went into the forest the pull became stronger and out of some reason I followed the direction of the pull. I continued to follow it until i came upon a large tree, the tree swayed a bit as I felt some wind rushed past me. I looked and heard the sound of thunder near by. Did Rainbow said that there’s a thunder storm coming? I moved a little closer to the tree as the sound of thunder boomed in the sky.
That is when I heard it, it was hard with the booming of thunder but I did hear it, the sound of a whimper. I looked around the tree until I saw a small hole at the base of the tree, odd that I could see it when it’s dark out. I poked my head in and looked around, it was dark but what I did see was roots from the tree and a small form huddling in the back of the hole.
“H-hello?” I called out. The form tensed a bit as it tried to move more away from me. “Don’t be scared, I’m not going to hurt you.”
I didn’t see the form move for some time until it moved so I could see it’s eyes. They were big and they had red iris are red, they looked at me in fear as the form started to shake. I backed up from the hole a bit without breaking eye contact and moved my hoof a in front of me.
“Come on, there’s nothing to be scared of.” I said as I waved my hoof to say that it can come closer. Its eyes shifted to me and my hood, after a few minutes it started to move a bit closer. I moved back so it could come out of the hole. As it did it tripped on something and squeaked as it fell. I caught it before it could hit the ground.
“Don’t worry, I got you.” I said. I looked down and got a better look at it. It was a filly with wings, leather wings and tips on top of her ears. Was she a bat pony that I heard of? I saw it was looking at me with wide eyes, I smiled down and moved so she could climb on my back.
“Come on, I’ll take you back to my place.” I told her. She looked at me and at my back and hesitated; after a minute she climbed on and laid down. I got up and headed back home, I remembered my way back from where I came from and during the trip a loud boom came from about and I flattened my ears at it and looked up. I also heard the filly squeaked and buried itself more into my back and started to shake.
I moved a bit faster out of the woods, after a few minutes and some more thunder claps I arrived back home and headed inside, closing the door I went into the living room. I laid down so the filly could jump down. After a few moments of hesitation she jumped down, I stood up and walked around her.
“Now let's see if you're hurt or- oh!” I said startled. The filly looked like a younger version of me with some differences; she had pale yellow fur, darker messy pink mane, some small fangs from her mouth and what I saw before, red eyes, little tufts on top of her ears. I looked over her and saw the leather wings and her cutie mark, three pink bats. I eyed her for a bit until I saw her shrink down onto the floor, I'm scaring her!
“Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.” I told her softly. She simply stared at me as I kneel down to her level. “Can… can you understand me?”
After a moment of silence she nodded. I smiled at her. “Can you… talk?
Another moment of silence before she shook her head, I saw tears started to form. My ears droop a bit at this, I begin to think of something to get her mind on if.
“Umm… you must be hungry! Are you hungry?” I asked her. She stared at me for a moment and nodded a bit as a growl came from her stomach. She blushed a bit at this, I giggled.
“Well let me see what I have.” I said to her as I got up and headed into the kitchen. I opened the fridge and saw that the only food were animal food, I forgot to get food today!
“Oh dear, what am I supposed to do now?” I said as I looked around. I turned to the table and saw the bowl of apples. I grabbed one and signed. “I hope this will do.”
I walked out to the room and saw that the filly was sitting in the same spot when I left, still looking frightened as before. The expression changed when she saw me and, more importantly, the apple. Her eye went wide and were on the apple like moths to a flame. I moved the apple in my hoof back and forth and saw that her eyes followed it, she started to drool a bit.
I stop moving the apple and placed it on the ground and rolled it to her, the reaction was instantaneous as she literally pounced onto the apple and rolled with it. She was on her back with the apple in her hooves and fangs into it. She mewed happily as she drank the juices from the apple. I ‘aww’ed at this, it was so cute! I saw the apple and discoloured a bit so I went back into the kitchen to get more apples. I came out with five of them and saw that the filly’s apple was on the ground and she was staring at it sadly.
She turned to me and saw the plate, the same thing happened from before, she stared at it drooling. I placed the plate down and sat down watch her eat the apples. After a few minutes she was finished I took the plate and headed for the kitchen to put the plate into the sink. I turned and saw that she followed me.
“Well now that you eaten how do you-”
BOOM!
I jumped at the sound of thunder over my head also the sound of rain on the roof. I then realize that something was gripping my foreleg, I look down to she her hold on to my leg for dear life, shaking with fear.
“Oh don't worry, you're fine in here.” I told her. She looked up at me and slowly let go of my leg. After a minute she yawned with a small squeak from it. I giggled at this.
“I guess you're tired, well I guess it's time for bed.” I told her. Her ears flatten and she looked passed me. I turned and saw that she was looking out of the window. “Oh no you're not going to sleep outside, that would be silly.”
I went out of the kitchen and looked behind me to see her following. I headed upstairs towards my bedroom, as I got there the filly followed me and looked at the bed, then at me. I nodded and watched her walk over to the bed and stared at it before jumping up on it. She struggles to climb on but with a squeak of ‘eep!’ she fell onto the floor.
She glared at the bed and tried again, this time using her wings to help. I went over and used my head to push her up on to the bed. She turned to me as I walked around to get in bed. I pulled the covers off and jumped into bed, I moved some more of the covers and tapped the spot beside me, she moved over and laid down beside me as I pull up the covers.
“Goodnight.” I said as I set my head onto the pillow and closed my eyes. Not even two minutes later I felt something move up onto me. I opened an eye and saw the filly snuggling up to me.
With a small smile I curled around the filly like a mother to her foal, I felt my eye closed as I slipped into the lands of dreams, with a foal sleeping in my hooves.
Author's Note
And so this is my first one-shot story... Is it good?
If you see errors and/ or have anything to say please comment below, I'm not the greatest writer and I want to improve 
Anyway, this story came to me when I watched the episode Bats! Mostly when you see those spectral bats flew off screen. When I saw what the first question I had was 'Where did those bats go??'
Now I saw many other stories with Flutterbats in it but this... I haven't see one like this, or there is one and I haven't found it yet.
Anyway I hope you enjoy it and stuff. By the way if anyone has a better name for the title please say so, I suck at titles :/
