The Fight for Happiness

The Fight For Happiness Pt. 1

Bark! Bark! Bellowed a group of perturbed timber wolves as they chased a now speeding Fluttershy

"Oh Fluttershy you loud mouth what have you've gotten yourself into?" Fluttershy said to herself.

"You had a simple task, pick up some medicine from Zecora for Angel Bunny, but you had to go alert a pack of timber wolves." She softly scolded herself.

The forest was dense and damp as usual, with little amounts of sunlight actually getting in through the thick canopy above.  Loud barking came from the timber wolves once again, clearly angry with Fluttershy. Fluttershy knew that she couldn't escape her pursuers on hoof, but she was too frightened to open her wings even if she wanted to. Fluttershy's right wing was still bleeding slightly from here injury when she ran into the timber wolves. 'Oh Fluttershy how did you end up here?

               "Okay Angel Bunny now you stay here and get some rest while I go get some medicine for you from Zecora."

A clearly sick and displeased Angel just stared at Fluttershy with a frown and an annoyed stare.

"Angel I know you're angry at me, but it's not my fault we ran out of medicine, so please stop looking at me like that....please." The yellow Pegasus said softly.

Angel Bunny just rolled over on the couch and closed his eyes trying not to focus on how bad he felt. Fluttershy walked over to Angel and gave him a soft nuzzle on the back of the head.

"I'm sorry you aren't feeling well Angel, hold on and I'll be back with some medicine soon." Fluttershy continued to gently nuzzle the sick bunny's head, Angel turned around and returned the nuzzle with his nose just so Fluttershy would be on her way. Fluttershy pulled away from Angel,

"Okay I'll be off now Angel, please try to feel better." Angel just rolled back over and gave out a tiny sneeze. Fluttershy put on her saddle bag and walked out the door, giving a quick look back at her sick little bunny while closing the door to her cottage.

               It was very sunny out, only a few clouds littered the sky there was a slight breeze. The weather was mild, the ponies of Ponyville just wrapped up Winter a little less than a week ago so it was still not too warm yet. Fluttershy started walking down the trail to the Everfree forest right outside her home, giving one look at the dark forest sent shivers down Fluttershy's spine. Even though she has braved the forest before on earlier accounts she still wasn't comfortable with going in there unless she was at least with a friend or two.  'It couldn't hurt if one of my braver friends accompanied me.' Thought the fearful Pegasus.

               Fluttershy turned around and started walking down the path to Ponyville at a quick pace wanting to get at least one of her friends then the medicine as soon as possible. Fluttershy decided to stop by Twilight's home first. A few quiet knocks were heard at the door of Twilight's tree.

              "Spike can you get that I'm in the middle of something!" yelled Twilight.

"Geez Twi, I'm in the same room as you, you don't have to yell." Responded the baby dragon putting down a few books on the table in the living room of their home. Spike walked to the door and opened it for Twilight's shy friend, "Hi there Fluttershy, Do you need something?" asked the baby dragon.

"Oh hello spike, Is Twilight home?" wondered Fluttershy, clearly noticing the mess in Twilight's home.

Spike stepped aside and pointed to a messy manned Twilight Sparkle working furiously at her desk. Fluttershy walked into the disheveled library, spike closed the door behind her and continued to tidy up the area.

"Excuse me Twilight, do you have a moment to talk." Twilight continued to work not paying Fluttershy a lick of attention. Fluttershy looked around the library, books and papers were scattered everywhere, Owlicious flew down the staircase and perched on the bookcase next to Spike.

"Hey Owlicious, did you finish cleaning upstairs?" asked Spike

"Who." Replied the brown helper owl.

"Not who, di…. I mean thank you Owlicious."

Fluttershy returned her attention back to Twilight. "Twilight, can I speak with you please." Once again she received no response from the lavender unicorn. Fluttershy now clearly displeased with not being able to get Twilight's attention. Twilight felt a few taps on the back of her head,

"Not now Spike." Said Twilight.

"It's not Spike Twilight, it's me Fluttershy and I need to talk to you…I mean if you have the time to." Replied Fluttershy softly.

"Oh hey Fluttershy, can I help you with something?" said Twilight still focusing on her studies

"Well Angel Bunny is sick, and I'm out of supplies to help him, and I was wondering if you could accompany me to Zecora's"

"I'm sorry Angel isn't feeling well and I would love to accompany you to Zecora's

"That's great!" interjected Fluttershy

"But I simply can't, I have a lot of work and studying to do today and I need to get it done as soon as possible, so if you would please I must get back to work."

"Oh....okay, well I hope you can get your work done soon, I'll talk to you later." Replied the disappointed Fluttershy.

"mhmmmm" simply replied Twilight.

Fluttershy began to walk out of Twilight's home, head hang low.

               "Bye Fluttershy" Said Spike but Fluttershy had already closed the door on her way out. "Well she seemed upset about something. Spike went back to cleaning, but soon belched loudly. A note appeared from his mouth in a green flame. "Twilight someone sent a letter to you, it doesn't have the royal seal though." Said the baby dragon looking at the strange seal on the scroll.

"Well is it a scroll from anyone else we know."

Spike looked over the seal, the seal on the scroll was a regular wax pressed one but it had a distinct look. The seal sported a shield with a cross, on the upper right and lower left of the shield was what seemed to be the heads of dragons. While on the upper left and lower right there was a strange symbol that Spike did not recognize. "Nope, never seen this seal before." Spike said still looking at the seal quizzically.

"Well then It can wait, I'm sort of in the middle of something and so are you, so you and Owilicious need to get back to work." Spike tossed the letter on the table and returned to help Owlicious clean the library, freeing his mind of the letter that was just sent.

               'Who else can I go to for help.' Thought Fluttershy. 'Well Rarity is working on new ensembles for a client, and Pinkie Pie was babysitting the cakes little foals. The next pony to enter Fluttershy's mind was Applejack.  Fluttershy set course for Sweet Apple Acres. 'Applejack has to be at her farm, she would gladly help me.' Fluttershy started to trot so she could get to Applejack's farm and get her help before it got too late.

         Fluttershy trotted up to the door of the farm house and knocked softly, there was no response. Fluttershy knocked again, "Be right down!" shouted Applebloom, her two friends could be heard in the background arguing about a certain color. Fluttershy waited outside and enjoyed the nice weather letting the gentle breeze blow here pink mane aside and roll off her yellow coat. Fluttershy sat down on the porch and closed her eyes for a little while and let her mind drift. This is the first time she's gotten any sort of rest, she was up last night tending to Angel Bunny, She just sat there with a small smile on her face, she almost completely forgot why she was here or were she even was. In the midst of her small meditation the door swung open and three excitable fillies jumped on Fluttershy.

               "Hey Stare master!" shouted the three fillies.

Fluttershy jumped backwards out of her trance in a fright. "Oh hey girls, you can't sneak up on me like that, you know how easily I scare." Said Fluttershy recovering from the surprise attack.

"We're Sorry Fluttershy" said the three in unison.

"Oh it's ok girls, so Applebloom have you seen you're sister?" Fluttershy asked looking at Applebloom's messy make-up covered face.

"Her and Big Mac went to the market to sell some apples, but I reckon Big Mac will be back soon, he just went to pull the apple cart. Why do you need my sister anyway?" said the curious Applebloom.

"Oh, well Angel is sick and I need somepony to walk with me to Zecora's."

"Well I'm sure Mac would gladly help y'all once he got back here."

"Yeah and while you're here you can help us get our cutie marks!" Shouted Sweetie Bell.

"Yeah we can practice our make-up skills on her next." Added Scootaloo.

"And we can become cutie mark cosmetologist!" Shouted all of three of them, Scootaloo and Applebloom having trouble pronouncing the word.

"Oh no, I'm not one to wear make-up and plus I have to get that medicine and get back before it gets to dark." Fluttershy started to walk away from the porch

"Goodbye Fluttershy" Said the three in unison once again.

               Fluttershy turned and gave a wave good bye to the girls. As Fluttershy walked away she heard something about a cutie mark and then the door closed. As Fluttershy walked of Sweet Apple acres she began to think about who else she could get to help. 'Well my only good friend left is Rainbow Dash and she could be napping on any cloud or in any tree in Ponyville and I really need to get that medicine and get back before it gets dark.' Fluttershy started back towards her cottage walking slowly not wanting to go through the forest but knowing she had to. She contemplated not going until tomorrow but she didn't want to leave poor little Angel Bunny to suffer. When Fluttershy eventually got back to her cottage she followed the short trail that led to the edge of the forest. She looked into the dark forest for a while thinking of all the creatures in there. She eventually put on her best brave face and walked into the Everfree forest with a fast pace hoping to get to Zecora's fast.

       "Curse this forest it's too damn confusing." Sighed the hooded equine making his way through some thick brush.

"I'll never be able to find that Zebra I was told about before dark" Muttered the pony drooping his head. After a few seconds he shot his head back up,

"Well better keep going, complaining isn't going to get me anywhere." The hooded figure said as he started to walk forward. The screech of a hawk filled the air above the hooded pony, the pony stuck out his right front hoof out as the hawk landed.

"Did you find something Beau?" The male hawk perched very regally flaunting his feathers, the hawk possessed grey feathers on his back and head with white below and on parts of his tail a rusty red patch stained each of the shoulders. The hawk nodded and gave a screech

"Well let's get a move on then." The hawk flew off and the pony followed his feathered companion.