Blazing Peaceful Time at the Animal Shelter

“No, I am NOT doing this!” Aria denied of the task.

“Come on, Aria, I already told her that we can help out for today.” Shadow said, trying to convince Aria to go through with this.

“Shadow, I love you and there are things I would do anything with you, but this… this crosses the line!” Aria glared as she forms her fist.

“Aria, please, she’s our friend and she need all the help she can get since no one else would.” Shadow explained.

“I don’t FUCKING care, nothing you say or do will make me walk into that… that stupid house or horror!” Aria dared herself not to say the name of the place.

“Aria, it’s just an animal shelter.” Shadow reminded as the scene zooms out revealing the place to be is the animal shelter.

“Full of those little, creepy, furry creatures that wants to full you all with those stupid-looking big eyes brainwashing you into doing whatever they want.” Aria explained. She really doesn’t like anything that is small and cute at the same time.

“Aria, helping Fluttershy with the animals at the shelter is not the end of the world.” Shadow stated, feeling that Aria is being ridiculous with this.

“Fluttershy may trust those things, but I will never let those things touch me with those thiny paws or claws or whatever they have.” Aria looked away and crosses her arms under her breasts.

“But you have no problem with bigger animals like wolves, lions, gorillas, and even an elephant.” Shadow listed.

“Because they’re bigger and cooler than those little creeps.” Aria explained.

“What exactly caused you to hate little animals so much?” Shadow asked.

Aria didn’t answer as she looks away and started recalling on ‘that’ day back when she and her sisters were still back in Equestria before they got banished by the Six Pillars of Light.

(Flashback)

Aria as a little kid in her seapony form is swimming in the sea doing some tricks until she came to the surface seeing a small beach and a forest, there she sees a small hedgehog crawling up close to the sandy ground sniffing around hoping to find some food to eat or maybe looking for a good place to take a nap.

Little Aria being curious as she swam up to the beach and flew above the sand using her magic to fly to get a closer look, the hedgehog saw Aria coming to her not sensing any bad things from her and walk up a little closer to her. Aria smiles that the hedgehog is letting her get closer to it, she reaches out her front fin to touch the pointy fur.

However, she soon discovered that the hedgehog wasn’t really a hedgehog at all. It was a porcupine.

“AAAAAAAAHHHHH?!?!” Little Aria screamed in pain from the sharp quills piercing through her fin and the porcupine ran away from the loud scream.

Aria quickly jump back into the water and swam all the way back to the coral house going into her bedroom, she slowly pulls the quills out of her front fin while her eyes are filling up with tears and her face change to anger, making a vow to never trust those little animals ever again.

(Flashback End)

“Let just say I had a ‘painfully’ experience.” Aria said, not wanting to talk about it.

“Well, whatever problems you have I’m sure Fluttershy will be able to help you get over them.” Shadow assured as he walks to the door.

“I like to see her try.” Aria said, following Shadow.

The door slides open and the two lovers walk in seeing some stuff people need for taking care of animals like food for all different kinds, lashes for dogs and cats, toys for the pets to play with, and some little clothes for the animals probably Rarity’s work.

“Hey Fluttershy, we’re here!” Shadow called out.

“Be right there!” Fluttershy responded.

A few seconds later, Fluttershy finally shows herself as she walks up to Shadow and the still angry Aria as she could feel herself about to barf anytime now for just being here that is a complete waste of her time, but knew that she couldn’t leave now because Shadow asked her to come and will use his Star Crimson to stop her from leaving, so there isn’t a choice of the matter for her right now and will have to endure everything here for the day. She hopes Shadow will make this up for her and all this is over.

“Hello, Shadow. Hello, Aria, it’s great have you two here!” Fluttershy greeted with a soft smile.

“Glad we could make it.” Shadow said.

“Yeah, just as long as those furballs don’t come anywhere near me.” Aria demanded.

“Sorry, Aria has a very disliking towards smaller animals like nice and stuff.” Shadow said.

“Oh dear, you must’ve had a rough childhood with one.” Fluttershy guessed. Aria’s eyes widen that this shy animal-lover somehow guess that right.

“Well, don’t worry Aria, I have a job that doesn’t involving being close to the animals.” Fluttershy mentioned, even though she wanted to help Aria to start liking animals a little.

“Whatever the job is, I might as well do it since I’m already here.” Aria rolled her eyes.

“Good, here is a list of all the items for the store that just for delivered yesterday and I need you to check of they’re all there.” Fluttershy handed Aria a clipboard with the item list.

“Great, inventory, my least favorite thing to do.” Aria said sarcastically.

“Well, you can’t exactly do your security guard duty during the day shift, plus you don’t work on Saturdays.” Shadow pointed out, Aria sighs heavy hating when Shadow is right.

“Okay, the storage room down there at the back and Shadow, you’ll be helping me with cleaning some of the cages and containers.” Fluttershy gestured toward the cages and boxes where the animals are living in.

“Sure, no problem.” Shadow nodded, thinking this job is no trouble at all.

“Aria, be sure to give me a call if anything happens and I’ll come rushing to you.” Shadow said his girlfriend.

“Please, like anything is going to happen here. I mean, who would attack a boring place like this?” Aria asked before walking away, heading toward the back room.

“You seem to be handling her well.” Fluttershy commented.

“She can be a hand full sometimes, but her tough spirit is part of her charm and she also a softy for me.” Shadow stated.

“Aww, it’s nice to see Aria has a good heart and doing fine after what happened to the Battle of the Band.” Fluttershy mentioned that musical event.

“Yeah, it’s kinda hard to forget that a crazy clown guy died right in front of you.” Shadow sighed, still remembering Joker’s death and worried about this Boss guy which he still doesn’t know anything about.

“Yes, uh, why don’t we get started on cleaning the animals’ cages?” Fluttershy suggested, quickly changing the subject.

“Good call, and don’t tell Aria that I said she’s a softy. She would kill me for saying that.” Shadow warned.

“Hehe, your secret is safe with me.” Fluttershy giggled, then she and Shadow started cleaning the cages by having the animals come out.

(With Aria)

“Let see here, two boxes of pet pillows. Three pounds of dry dog food.” Aria checked through the items on the object that is on the list Fluttershy gave her, she also wonders why would they need that many stuff for a few rodents.

Unknown to her, something is watching her from the shadow behind a large box then moves to another hiding place while moving fast.

“Okay, I count four scratching while loawhen there should have been five. Looks like someone miss counted and didn’t even bother to double check.” Aria annoyed by this, hopefully the guy will get his payment cut in half for this.

The weird something is now watching Aria from the higher point of view on the higher shelve, then Aria got this strange feeling that someone or something is watching from behind and turns to around only to see nothing but boxes of items for the animal shelter. She wasn’t sure why she thought there was even someone here spying on her like a stalker, the only people in animal shelter are Fluttershy and Shadow as they are cleaning the little animals’ cages right now.

Aria shook the thought out of her head and went back to checking on the items, hopefully she’ll get this done quickly so she can go home.

However, the little something is still watching Aria from the shadows revealing two tiny red dots.

(Back with Shadow and Fluttershy)

Shadow is seen cleaning the inside of a hamster cage with the hamster sitting on his shoulder while Fluttershy is cleaning the mice cage with a small white bunny on her head.

“So, do you do all the cleaning by yourself and are there others helping you out?” Shadow asked, seeing that Fluttershy is the only person in the store since he and Aria got here.

“Not always, there are a few works here including the manager and we each take turns on doing things here like cleaning the cages.” Fluttershy explained.

“I see, you seem to enjoy being here more than your own home.” Shadow chuckled.

“Indeed, I really enjoy being with these animals for I always feel a connection to them, and they do to me.” Fluttershy said as she cuddles her cheek against her pet rabbit Angel though he seems annoyed.

Shadow smiles glad to see people like her caring more about animals and treating them with such kindness that cannot be outmatch like she’s radiate of pure light, he wishes that everyone would treat each other equally so that there wouldn’t be anymore trouble like thugs on streets or a small war at another country. However, he also knows that you can’t always have peace without a little violent like fighting to protect that peace and the people trying to live in it.

Shadow finish cleaning the hamster cage and putting the little stuff back inside as the hamster on his shoulder runs along his arm and hop into its cage, it looks up to Shadow like the little furball is thanking him and he smiles back. He moves on to the next cage which say it’s a rabbit like Angel though when he looks inside, he finds the cage to be empty and no sign of the rabbit anywhere.

“Hey, Fluttershy.” Shadow called out.

“Yes, Shadow, do you need some help?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yeah, like a missing rabbit because I don’t see one in this cage.” Shadow informed.

“What?” Fluttershy shocked and walk over the cage Shadow is staring at, she looks inside then her eyes widen.

“Oh my, oh no, he’s on the lose again!” Fluttershy panicked.

“Whoa, Fluttershy, is everything okay?” Shadow confused.

“No, Loki seem to be trying to escape from the shelter again.” Fluttershy said.

“Loki, the rabbit of this cage?” Shadow asked.

“Yes, you see, Loki is… not exactly a normal bunny when I found him one day and no matter what I do, he won’t open up to me or anyone who wants to adopt him. Then there’s this weird thing he always gets more carrots in his cage even though I only gave him one.” Fluttershy explained about the bunny Loki.

“Hmm, is there any other strange things that’s happened around him?” Shadow asked, feeling his gut is saying that there is more to this bunny then meets the eye.

“Hmm, well, there was this one time I thought I saw two Loki fighting each other, but I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me because he’s the only one here.” Fluttershy recalled.

“(Hmm, I wonder if this Loki is one of those rare animals with Stand power.)” Shadow thought theorized.

(With Aria)

“Uh, looks like that’s about everything in here. That wasn’t so bad.” Aria smirked after she had checked the last item on the list.

Aria heard something tapping behind her and turns around, but only to find nothing.

“Weird, I could’ve sworn I” Then ran behind her fast enough to make her hair flow a bit.

Aria turns around again staring at the shelves.

“Shadow, if that’s you then you better cut it out or else, I’ll get piss off.” Aria threatened, she doesn’t like pranks much, especially pranks that ends up targeting her.

There was no response making Aria freak out a little, but she wouldn’t let fear get the better of her and will find the bastard who dares try to scare as she’ll be the one this guy will be afraid for a very long time. Then she felt something touch her shoulder, acting on instinct she quickly turns around and threw a strong punch at whoever is behind her though the fist only punch air, but she felt something hop on her backhand and opens her eyes to see something unexpected.

A black bunny, though this bunny is very strange because it wears a white makeup on its face with black sharp claw-marks pointing down from under the eye and its ears are tied together by a red ribbon.

“(Whoa, is this some kind of… Goth bunny?)” Aria mentally asked herself.

“Huh, hi…” Aria greeted, not sure what to make of this and the bunny simply wave its paw at her.

“Umm, so you one of the animals here?” Aria asked, the bunny nodded and pull up a piece of paper showing it to Aria.

Loki

“Loki, is that your name?” Aria asked, the bunny now known as Loki nodded and hop onto her shoulder.

“Whoa there, little guy, I don’t deal with little animals like you.” Aria said, though Loki just stares at her with a blank expression that says he doesn’t care.

“What, you’re not gonna try to be cute or anything?” Aria asked, Loki shook his head for no and made a gag face.

“Wow, you really don’t like cute things too.” Aria impressed, Loki nodded with a proud smile.

“Uh, maybe you’re not so bad. Bet you want get out of this boring place.” Aria said, Loki nodded and pat his paw on Aria’s cheek.

“Well, Loki, looks like you just found your ticket out of this dump.” Aria grinned and Loki grins back.

(With Shadow and Fluttershy)

“Wow, today went faster than I thought with your Stand.” Fluttershy commented as she and Shadow share a cookie, cookies for human, not like the ones for dogs.

“Thanks, thought it helps out.” Shadow said.

“Hey, guys!” Aria greeted walking to them with Loki.

“Hey Aria, and-oh my, you found Loki!” Fluttershy relieved that Loki is safe.

“Yeah, this little devil seems to like me more than you.” Aria said as she fist-paw bum with Loki.

“Oh, that’s so wonderful! Loki found his human you no longer hate smaller animals!” Fluttershy cheered.

“Oh no, I still hate them, Loki is just special and we’re gonna get along just fine.” Aria smiled.

Loki looks back at the other animals staring at him on Aria’s shoulder, he growls at them like a vicious predator scaring them into hiding inside their cages. Loki chuckles evilly as he always enjoys scaring them like that every time and will enjoy scaring this Sonata girl Aria mentioned.

“Well, looks like this bunny is definitely more than the average.” Shadow commented, still wondering if this bunny is a Stand User.

Author's Note

KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

Aria has gotten herself a new bunny named Loki which is like the same bunny from that Total Drama around the world cartoon show, but this Loki is different because he’s more special like Shadow theorized thinking he could be an animal Stand User. You’ll just have to wait and see if Loki does have a Stand or not when an enemy Stand User comes to attack his new home and family.

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