Modest Fluttershy was incredibly surprised when she found a whole pile of heart envelopes in the mailbox this morning. Could it be that Derpy had made a mistake by mixing up the letters again? No, they were all signed by her, at her address at the cabin on the forest edge... Who could have liked Fluttershy so much? Yes, and... all at once! Blushing through her fur, Pegasus took the hearts in fright and returned to the house. Fluttershy hopped onto the bed, nearly tripping over Angel on the way, dumped the cards on the bed, and climbed in after them, digging her hooves into the envelopes. Her heart was beating fearfully. Too much for her, locking herself in a Pegasus house with a fear of society!
"Celestia..." Fluttershy was the first to pick up the most conspicuous heart, which shimmered with all the colors of the rainbow. "You're just my friend, it wasn't necessary…"
The beige mare opened her heart, reading the large scribbles:
I HAVE A LOT OF FANS, BUT THEY'RE NOT WORTH YOU, HONEY! WAITING FOR YOUR KISS!
"Refuse will be difficult, but will have..." Trembling hooves filly postponed bright heart and took a large, scarlet:
Do you want a big but pure love? Then fly to the hayloft tonight.
Color flooded Fluttershy's face. Unhooking a dried Daisy, she inserted it behind her ear and read the invitation again. Big Mac... Rustic directness.
"I'm sorry, but I won't tick your list!" she said, hiding the letter under the mattress. "So, who's this from…"
The heart was blue, tied with a ribbon in the form of a Golden lightning bolt for safekeeping. A piece of Apple pie had dried on the edge of the cardboard.
As she tore it off and read the message, which was mostly typed, except for the hoof-lettered lines above it, Flutty giggled a little:
Dear _Fluttershy_, on behalf of the Wonderbolts I, (private, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain) _Soarin_ congratulate you on the Hearts and Hooves Day and send you my fiery heart from heaven! You fired a shot to kill me and made me your faithful servant, and I will not find peace until I get satisfaction from you. I ask you to come without seconds _I will come to you myself_ at four o'clock _minutes. See you soon, my love!
"We'll have to move begonia to the sun," Fluttershy decided, and winced as she remembered how Soarin's chest usually bulged. No, his chest is bulging – 'bulging' like all Pegasi, but at the same time he makes a face that kills all the romance at all! Because Fluttershy liked unicorns and earth ponies better, at least they can't bulge!
The green Valentine was in Fluttershy's hooves, and she opened It with great caution. And her premonition had not deceived her! It just said the following: Happy Hearts and Hooves day, little sister, money came, Zephyr. That's really who better Soarin knows how to spoil all the romance!
"Get a job, you lazy! Every holiday you ask me for money!"
Then Fluttershy twirled a black velvet heart with an embossed gold monogram in the shape of the intertwined letters "S" and "F" in front of her nose. The second is understandable, but first... Soarin already written, and would not have it so expensive to spend money on a simple vet's. Sparkle? No, it's too thin, and last year its heart was fifty pages long and, fortunately, quite censorious.
Curiosity flooded Fluttershy's soul and she carefully opened the cardboard heart... Inside it was black, with red letters, sinister and arrogant:
We, King Sombra, the one and only self-proclaimed ruler of the Crystal Empire, His Majesty the Shadow, the Evil Lord, Baron of Horror and Lord of the Merciless condescended to write to you, vile insect, unworthy of our attention, in this umbranasty holiday, and to say that you were able to hit the ice with our dark as Night, hearts, and so we invite you at twelve o'clock in Evergreen forest to meet his fate. If you don't come, we will kill every stallion and Mare that tries to hide you, we will level Equestria with the ground, and no tartarus' alicorn can save you from our fury if you refuse!
Fluttershy glanced apprehensively at angel, who was reading letters with her on her wing. Judging by the way this rabbit played with a carrot club in its front paws, there was no danger of a Sombra. If even a dragon once coped with it, a rabbit that has battered this dragon every day, all the more it will master it.
"'What could be more banal than meeting a vampire in a cemetery?'" Flutty remembered a quote from the book about the Witcher Roach. "'Meeting a vampire in a cemetery at midnight.'"
Ignoring the letter, but deciding that it was definitely worth showing Twilight something to her, this half-dead spirit began to write too often! Pegasus looked at the pile of ordinary Valentines and was even a little upset that the remarkable ones were over. But ... it seems that there is still one left – the filly raked the letters with her wing and fished out another colorful heart. She opened the card and sneezed at the glittering gray-colored dust that had escaped from it.
Your choice is a foregone conclusion, my dear! That's all the words.
Fluttershy tore open the heart with her claws. Then she hiccupped in fear, hiding her nose behind her wing.
"Just like this. You try for her, you try, and then there is only a frightened squeak. Not good!"
Discord turned from its back to its belly and flew up on a small cloud to the charming yellow dragoness, who was now lying on the bed instead of the yellow Pegasus. And she didn't know whether to yell at him that he was just as lustful and selfish as everyone else, or rather fly from here to the Harmony Tree for the chaos-banishing Elements.
But another solution came to her mind, and instead of all this, she simply kissed draconiquis on the nose.
