Love at First Bite

It was that night. Three years since Fluttershy proposed to Rainbow Dash. That was the night that she rose from her body. Flutterbat. Ever since the incident with the vampire bats, Fluttershy has been having nightmares upon nightmares about it.

Nightmares about a yellow bat pony with fangs identical to the Element of Kindness’s appearance coming down to pierce her flesh. At least, that’s what I heard. That nightmare awakens Flutterbat like she flew from the dream to what happened now.

I can tell that Rainbow is heartbroken. Fluttershy is her love and that dark side took that love from her. To make it worse, Flutterbat pierced her fangs through the shin of Rainbow’s right foreleg, forming a scar a couple of days later. That’s when she thought Fluttershy is gone, faded out of existence now that Flutterbat existed.

Twilight claims that Fluttershy is confirmed gone. Twilight said that she’s no longer in the void meaning she can’t reach Rainbow’s beloved and live together at the end. All we can hear from Rainbow now is depression. Rarely talking to us and isolating herself in her cloud house until she recovers, but I can tell that would never happen.

Right now, Flutterbat is kept in the barn of Sweet Apple Acres, currently tied up in chains framed on the barn’s wall. Only a few ponies knew and heard about this predicament, myself included. I’m in the middle of resting my head in bed just to get it off my mind or maybe think of something to solve this.

But that’s when an idea magically appeared in my mind. It’s a plausible thought I thought of, but I wasn’t certain it would go so well. But, the truth is, I’m on Rainbow’s claim, Fluttershy is within the beast. I can’t leave Rainbow in a constant depressed state, so I’m gonna work on my idea now.

I got out of bed to take my lantern and started walking to Sweet Apple Acres, making sure I don’t make a sudden noise that could wake up the entire village for those ponies to see me walking in the middle of the night towards where they held Flutterbat captive.

Eventually, I reached the barn. At this point, I’m glad that I left this night because at the moment I opened the door, I saw Rainbow Dash with a knife centimeters away from Flutterbat’s esophagus preparing to stab through it. The bat pony’s eyes flinching in fear as she tries to escape her ties.

“Rainbow Dash! Stop!”

By the time I saw this, I immediately started running at Rainbow to tackle her from the side, causing her to drop the weapon and let it fall onto the wooden floor.

“Argh! What the hay?!”

Her tone of voice tells that she’s still irritated by the fact that Fluttershy is gone.

“What were you trying to do, Rainbow?”

“I was trying to kill Flutterbat! Fluttershy is alive, Silver Trust, I know it.”

“Rainbow, I do think that your love is still deep in the beast’s mind. But why? Why are you trying to end her life?”

Rainbow lowered her temper a little just because I believed her. She’s only still frustrated about her bride.

“I can’t live when my Fluttershy looks like this! I’ll calm down if she’s free!”

“Freedom by death? Rainbow Dash, I know what you’ve been through, but you can’t do that. You can’t just give up and refuse to find alternate solutions.”

“Twilight and Zecora were not able to bring Fluttershy back. Not even Princess Celestia was able to bring her back. Twilight even said she’s gone from the void. So what’s the point.”

“We may not have a solution that brings her back, but I may have a solution that brings love back. More specifically, you two may be together again.”

I knew she would be calmed and shocked after I said that, but for some reason it felt like I sounded too convincing. How would she feel when my plan failed and it’s considered that I failed her?

“So you think that you could put me and Fluttershy together again?”

“Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe I can, but what are the chances?”

“Well, every little bit helps. I’d do anything, small or otherwise, for Fluttershy.”

“Thank you for the inspiration, I appreciate it. We’re gonna reform Flutterbat.”

“Wait, reform her? As in, unveiling an enemy’s good side?”

“Yes. I’m sure Flutterbat just had a misunderstanding. Especially when she bit your foreleg.”

And that’s when I heard Flutterbat hissing in a soft manner trying to get my attention. I turned to face her, not expecting her emotions to come loose. Her red eyes eyeing the floor in sorrow. I can tell she heard our conversation, but I asked just to be sure.

”Have you been hearing our conversation?”

She nodded slowly in response. She did hear our conversation. I don’t know what Flutterbat heard, but whatever was, it made her feel miserable. Seeing this, myself and Rainbow positioned ourselves around her and I started to ask a few more questions.

“Are you feeling kind?”

She nodded again.

“Are you…thirsty? Do you want...blood?”

She shook her head. She doesn’t want to consume blood, which is odd but understandable.

“Do you want to be released?”

She looked in the ceiling for a second and then nodded afterwards. I can tell that she’s in fear. I know that she’s scared of herself. She wants to be free, but she’s scared to try. Right now, she’s looking at the knife on the ground, I know that she wants somepony to pick it up and let it penetrate through an organ that could ultimately kill her dead. I thought for a moment before talking to Rainbow Dash.

“Rainbow, give me the knife.”

Flutterbat is alarmed by my words, but she seems to be accepting the outcome, which I know it’s not what she’s thinking. I’m not sure what Rainbow thought I was gonna do, but she picked up the knife from the floor and passed it to me.

Flutterbat closed her eyes as I began moving the blade. She doesn’t know where the knife will begin stabbing, but I positioned the blade over the chains and thrusted it through them, releasing the bat pony from captivity.

I helped her up as she dropped off the wall and mere seconds after touching her hoof, she immediately hugged Rainbow Dash and nuzzled against her. Her distinct sobs indicating her weeping as her tears wet Rainbow’s blue fur. And then shortly after, she eyed on Rainbow’s scarred leg and licked it and then she went back to hug her.

”It’s okay, Flutterbat. You may not be the mare I like to see, but I’m not upset now that you understand what I felt.”

See, Flutterbat only stops being savage because she understands what’s happened. She understands love. She understands harm. She understands pain. And those understandings made her realization and that’s what breaks her into tears.

Flutterbat is only crying because she knows she’s a monster. A monster that harms ponies. A monster that causes problems to ponies. A monster that replaces a pony’s love. But myself and Rainbow will work on discharging all those tears and worries.

“Don’t worry about all the harm you caused today. We’ll make your worries go away, right, Rainbow?”

“Yeah. But we should start tomorrow. It’s getting pretty late.”

“Right. Maybe you should sleep here with Flutterbat. Flutterbat, tomorrow morning, you need to start making friends.”

Flutterbat nodded as an answer for “Yes.”

I stood up and walked towards the door to open it and exited out of the barn. Before I left, I turned to face Rainbow as she called me.

“Hey. Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

To be continued…