The Fight for Happiness

The Fight For Happiness Chapter 1 part 2

          Fluttershy trotted through the forest trying to get to Zecora's as fast as she can without disturbing any of the creatures in the forest. The Forest was damp and dark like it usually was, she could hear the snapping of twigs and leaves from some of the smaller critters scurrying on the ground of the forest. Above she could hear birds singing she would have enjoyed it more if she didn't know where she was. Fluttershy tried not to focus on the creepy scenery around her and focus on why she needed to be brave, for Angel she needed to make sure she got back safe for him. But she couldn't help but feel like if she could have just waited for Big Mac this could be much easier. She kept thinking how strong and tall big Mac was and how easily he could face anything that forest could throw at her. She was stuck on this train of thought for about five minutes not really paying attention to where she was going. She kept just looking forward thinking about how Big Mac could have protected her from anything, until she lost footing; it was at this moment she snapped out of the thought rolled down a ditch thumping against something and giving out a squeal. After recovering from the fall she heard a low growl, she knew what she had bumped into.

          Fluttershy jumped back and turned to see a small group of timber wolves obviously perturbed by being awoken by the small pony. The timber wolves growled at Fluttershy and glared at her menacingly teeth showing looking ready to pounce. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to wake you up from your nap, you and all your friends can go back to sleep I'll just be leaving now, sorry again." Said Fluttershy slowly backing away from the angry timber wolves. One of them barked very loud and jumped at Fluttershy, she was quick enough to jump away and avoid a fatal attack to her side, but the outstretched claws grazed her wing enough to draw a steady flow of blood. The wounds weren't too deep but stung, she turned and tried to run away as fast as she could. The leader of the small pack of four barked some orders and were soon in pursuit of the injured yellow pony.

                  "Oh yeah that's how you got into this situation, Fluttershy you need to learn how to keep quiet you loud mouth." Fluttershy muttered snapping back into reality.

                Fluttershy could still hear the bellowing Timber wolves behind her. Fluttershy was scared, she had no clue what to do, she could usually tame animals just by talking to them but these wolves were very upset. She could feel the blood running from her wing and trickling across her coat. Fluttershy was running as fast as she could, tears welling in her eyes thinking about her friends knowing that she might not be able to see them again. The final reality of her fate was realized when she came upon a large hill too steep for her to climb, she turned to see the four timber wolves finally catching up. The timber wolves saw that the pony was now trapped and they were now approaching slowly. Fluttershy backed up until she hit the hill and she sat there too scared to move, the wolves still approaching slowly. The leader of the small pack barked at the other ones and they backed off, knowing the leader wanted this one to himself. The wolf got low to the ground and got ready to pounce, the last thing Fluttershy thought before the wolf did was how will Angel take care of himself. Fluttershy closed her eyes and fell back as the large timber wolf launched himself at Fluttershy knowing he would be eating well tonight.

          "Twilight are you sure it was right to let Fluttershy go into the Everfree forest all by herself." Said spike clearly worried about the safety of one of Twilight's close friends.

"Spike Fluttershy has been into the forest and knows of its dangerous creatures, and anyway she has a way with the creatures of the forest anyway." Responded Twilight eyes still glued on to her work.

"Are you're studies more important than the safety of your friends?" Spike said back.

"Spike I'm shocked, that is a ridiculous notion, and on top of that aren't you supposed to be cleaning up the library."

"I'm just saying Twilight I don't know what you could be working on that is so important to where it would put Fluttershy in danger."

"Spike! Stop she will be fine! I'm have a lot of work on my plate and I want to get it done so please, KEEP QUIET!" Shouted Twilight.

Spike stepped back from his angry friend stumbling over a few book and landing on his behind. "Geez Twi, I was just voicing my opinion, I'm just worried about Fluttershy the forest is dangerous and you know it."

Twilight turned to her dragon assistant. "Spike I'm sorry I yelled at you, it's just I've been studying on this new magical break through and I want to learn more about it."

"I know Twilight but what if something bad happens to Fluttershy, you've seen the dangers of the forest Ursuas, hydras, manticores, dragons…"

"I know Spike!" interjected Twilight. "Okay how about this, I'll wrap up my research and I'll try to catch up with Fluttershy."

"If you say so Twilight." Said dragon getting back to his work

          "Come on girls were not going to get a make-up cutie mark, we're wasting our time." Said Applebloom

"It's called cosmetology, And I'm pretty sure if we keep working at it will get better." Replied Sweetie Belle

"I have to agree with Applebloom, I don't think we are cut out for this make-up stuff."

"Fine."

"So what do y'all girls want to do next?"

"You guys want to watch me tear it up on my scooter?"

"Nah, we did that earlier and how about we go to my sister's house and see if we can find our talent there?"

"Doesn't Rarity have some dresses to make for some fancy pants client?" asked Applebloom

"Oh yeah."  Replied Sweetie Belle.

"Well what do we do know?" said scootaloo pondering what the three friends could do to find there special talent.

At that moment the door swung open. "Girls I'm home from the market." Said Big Macintosh upon entering his home."

The three fillies ran down stairs to see if Applebloom's older brother could help them find their special talent "Hey Big Mac how did it go at the market today."

"Big crowd, Applejack is taking care of the stand.........Applebloom what's on your face?"

"Oh, well we were trying to get our cutie marks in make-up and it didn't go very well, we asked Fluttershy to help but she was to busy."

"Fluttershy? What was she doin' here?" Asked the stallion pricking up his ears.

"She was looking for Applejack, she needed someone to help her through the Everfree forest."

"The Everfree forest!?!? Why didn't you tell her to stay here and I would have helped her once I got back?" interrogated Big Mac

"We did and why are you getting so worked up Big Mac she's been there before." Said Scootaloo

"It's because Mac has a crush on Fluttershy." Said Applebloom with a devious smile on her face.

"Awww, that's so cute Big Mac no wonder you didn't want to go out with Cheerilee."

Mac stomped his hoof on the floor hard putting a crack in the floor. "I do not; I've got to much work on the farm to be worrying about going out with other ponies!"

The stomp of Big Mac's hoof made the girls jump back. "Then why you getting so worked up about it." Said Applebloom smiling deviously again.

At first Mac didn't have an answer, he just stood there for a few seconds with a stern look on his face. He finally stuttered a bit and said, "I...I'm gonna go buck some trees." Big Mac hurried out of the house and into the orchard.

"Wow he must really like Fluttershy." Said Scootaloo

"Yeah but he's too shy to ask anypony out." Replied Applebloom

"We should help him!" Shouted Sweetie Belle

Scootaloo and Applebloom both shot looks at her. "Do you not remember what happened last time we tried to get Mac a filly friend?" Asked Scootaloo

"Oh yeah." Said Sweetie Belle remembering the love poison and the events it caused last Hearts and Hooves day.

"So what do y'all want to do next?"

The girls sat there thinking what they wanted to try next, Scootaloo finally spoke up "You want to follow your brother around and try to buck some apples?"

"I guess." Responded Applebloom

"And we can ask him why he likes Fluttershy!" Shouted Sweetie Belle with a big smile on her face

Both of her friends just shook their heads and started to walk to the orchard were the red stallion had retreated.

          Fluttershy opened her eyes a pair of sharp wolf teeth right in front of her face, at first she screamed then she realized that the teeth weren't moving towards her. The timber wolf that was attacking her was now frozen in midair surrounded by a dark teal aura of magic. She tilted her head to the side and noticed that the same thing was happening with the other timber wolves. A few seconds later the aura had sub-sided but the wolves stayed in place. Fluttershy was elated she was still alive but was confused. 'Who would come out into the Everfree forest and why would they want to?'

                  It was at this time a pony wearing robes jumped from the hill and landed on his hind hooves next to Fluttershy, the robes were pretty simple except they were layered, each layer longer than the next. The First layer was white and went past the waist it was segmented into two parts once it went past the waist, the second layer being cyan with a orange trim gave it the look of an orange sun rising over the sky and the bottom was white like the first layer but was segmented into four different parts and it had a thin gold trim, the hood of the robes had a thick cyan stripe going from the bottom of the neck to the point of the hood, the whole piece was held together at his waist with a dark blue sash with a leather belt worn over it. The finishing touches of his ensemble was a leather spaulder that had a few pouches attached to the length of leather keeping the spaulder on him, and two leather bracers put on over the sleeves of the robes. At first he focused his gaze on the wolves, slowly admiring his work; he then focused his gaze on the pony he just saved. At first Fluttershy was scared seeing that she has never meet this person, but the fear sub-sided when he offered her his hoof to help her up. She accepted the hoof of the stranger grabbing on to it, Fluttershy felt engraved leather as she grabbed onto the hoof. The hooded pony pulled Fluttershy onto her four hooves, Fluttershy looked up at the hooded figure and tried to make eye contact and almost immediately shied her head away.

"Are you okay miss?" asked the pony.

"um....yeah I'm okay I guess."

"Are you sure, you are bleeding some from your wing?"

"I know, it's fine I just need to get to my zebra friend's home." Said the pony turning her head away

"Zebra friend? Would this Zebra happen to go by the name of Zecora?"

"Yes, how do you know her?"

"I was told of her talent with potions I just need to get to her, would you mind showing me the way to her residence?"

"Well I would like to but I don't know where we are, those timber wolves ran me a bit off course, I'm sorry." Said the pegasus softly

                  The hooded pony was about to talk again but immediately was stopped by the screech of a hawk. He went down on all fours, pulled down his hood and revealed his face, the unicorn had a grey coat with a dark teal mane his eyes were deep green, looking at him he was about the same age as Fluttershy maybe a year older. The grey unicorn stuck out his hoof; the hawk landed on the outstretched hoof and gave out another screech. It was at this time  Fluttershy turned her head and approached the two.

              "Oh my, that is quite the beautiful hawk you have sir may I see him."

"Thank you, but I don't know Beau doesn't really like other ponies." Said the pony

"Oh I'm sure he could be friendly if he wanted to." At this moment Fluttershy stuck out her hoof and started to hum a beautiful song.

Beau was immediately attracted to her beautiful humming and perched on her hoof making sure not to hurt her with his sharp talons.

"See, I think he could help us, what was his name again?" asked Fluttershy

The unicorn stood there at a loss of words seeing Beau being so friendly. "Um...uh,Beau his name is Beau."

"Okay, Beau listen closely I want you to fly around the area and look for a hut with some decorations on the front, okay?" The Hawk nodded and flew off.

At this time the unicorn was thrown for even more of a loop. "How...How did you do that, miss uh, I'm sorry I didn't get your name?"

"Fluttershy, and I'm just good with animals it's my special talent."

"That's quite amazing, it took me a month or two before he would even follow simple commands."

"I just have a way with almost all living creatures, and I don't think I got your name."

"I'm Drake, it's nice to meet you miss Fluttershy."

"So Drake, how long do you think it will take Beau to find Zecora's hut?"

"I'm not too sure, but would you like me to patch up your wing while we wait?"

"Oh yes please." Said Fluttershy turning to look at her wing realizing how much blood was actually on her body.

"All right extend your wing a little and hold still." Drake opened up one of the spaulder pouches and pulled out some medical bandages with is magic.

Fluttershy extended her wing giving out a small whimper of pain.

"All right this will only take a second." Drake began to wrap fluttershy's injured wing.

"And done."

"Thank you that feels better." Said Fluttershy folding her wing back in.

"No problem Fluttershy." Said Drake putting his medical bandages away, Drake put his hood back up and plopped down on the ground

"Well, looks like we just have to sit here and wait." Drake opened another one of the pouches on his spaulder and pulled out a rolled up piece of paper that seemed to have something in it. He put one end in his mouth and lit the other end with magic. Drake inhaled and let the smoke out through his nose.

"Excuse me Drake, what is that you're smoking." Asked Fluttershy curiously, she has seen ponies smoke before, but only pipes and that was only the fancy ponies she saw when she was a model.

"It's called a cigarette, it contains tobacco like a pipe but it's a bit more convenient to carry around and you can just through them away when you're done." Replied Drake.

"That's interesting I've never seen anything like that, but can you please put out the flame before discarding it, if it's ok with you." Said Fluttershy.

"Sure Fluttershy, I wouldn't want the forest to catch on fire."

"Thank you Drake."

                   Fluttershy sat down as well and decided to hum again, Drake just watched he found it mystical in a since how animals were just attracted to her voice like that. Squirrels, birds, and rabbits surrounded her they didn't even mind the timber wolves even though they were frozen they still looked menacing.  Fluttershy Stopped for a moment and looked at drake.

"So Drake how long the timber wolves be frozen like that?" asked Fluttershy.

"For about thirty or forty more minutes." Replied Drake.

"Oh okay that's good." Fluttershy said returning to her humming.

Drake took a deep inhale and exhaled the smoke; he put out the cigarette flame and tossed it aside. It was about 15 minutes later Drake spotted his feathered companion, by this time Fluttershy had stopped humming but the animals still surrounded her. Beau screeched and landed next to Drake giving his regal pose like usual. "So did you find the hut Beau?' Beau nodded and flew over to Fluttershy and rubbed his head against Fluttershy's coat and gave a soft screech. "Beau I'm glad you are back, So which way is it to Zecora's." Asked Fluttershy, patting Beau's head softly. Beau flapped his wings and started to fly west and Fluttershy followed.

"Wait up!" shouted Drake stumbling to his hooves.