Believe

Fluttershy strolled through heaven's droplets. The sky was a cold, dark shade of bluish grey. Around the time she was halfway home, she found something sprawled across the asphalt.

"What is that...?"

With a few more steps, she witnessed the horrifying truth. Earlier in the day, someone had run over a baby kitten. The bleeding continued long after its death caused by the crushing of its organs. Fluttershy wanted to scream. She wanted to vomit, but all she could do was stare in agonized pain. Never in her life did she expect the reaper to scar her in such a shameless fashion. She only pulled her eyes away when the tears came.

"Siel..."

Lash after lash, Siel etched misery into the skin of the monstrous men strung up before him, reminding them again and again of their misdeeds, when all of a sudden, without warning, he fell to his knees, his teeth, tightly clenched. A sharp, burning feeling pervaded his chest.

"Yo, you okay," one of his brothers asked.

"She needs me."

Siel spread his wings and flew away. His quickness was so great, those present believed he'd simply vanished into thin air - a feat said only to be attainable by a true warrior of God.

A black streak cut across the concrete behind the bawling Pegasus. She felt a pair of arms wrap around her tightly.

"Siel...?"

He nodded.

"Th...There."

"Oh, Jesus..."

Siel blocked Fluttershy's view of the mangled corpse. She'd seen more than enough.

"We can't leave it here."

Just as he had done the day they met, Siel closed her eyes. However, this time, she remained very much awake. It was a symbolic gesture on his part. Using his powers, he materialized a shovel. He took the kitten into the nearby woods, using his supernatural strength and endurance to hastily dig a hole. He stripped large chunks of bark from the tress around him and crafted them into a durable coffin. In that moment, death was the cruelest joke nature ever played.

After burying the kitten, Siel returned to Fluttershy. He rested his palm upon her cheek. She wrapped her foreleg around his arm in response.

"I want to go home..."

Siel lifted Fluttershy onto his back. The emotional pressure was too intense for the mare. She faded into subconsciousness...