Fluttershy's Secret
It was a beautiful summer afternoon over Ponyville. The sun was shining bright in the skies. Pegasi were clearing the clouds, happy to welcome the weekend. Birds sang cheerfully while five colorful ponies could be seen from a distance in the greens of the park, laying down a picnic mat with lots of food and goodies. Different creatures could be seen around them, hopping and walking happily as a pink pony put up the last of the balloons to finish the decoration.
“Ah, that is the last of them!” Pinkie said as the others stared at some of the balloons flying away and taking the picnic basket with them.
"Uhh, anyway… It's a pity that Fluttershy couldn't come to our weekly Pony Pet Playdate", said Twillight.
"Hoot!", hooted Owlowiscious.
"Oh I am sure she has more important work to deal with, darling. But indeed, this is the first time she misses the event!", Rarity replied disappointed.
"It must've been really important fo' her not ta be here... 'Ah wonder what could she be doing right now?", wondered Applejack.
"Oh forget about her, let's start eating!", Pinkie Pie yelled as her stomach started to make strange noises.
"Hope that sound isn't one of your Pinkie Senses!", laughed Rainbow Dash.
Everypony began laughing and soon the five ponies started gobbling the goodies and playing with their pets. And, having fun of course.
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Meanwhile... in Fluttershy's house...
"Oh Angel... w-why are you always so mean to me?", said a soft voice.
The pet bunny quickly crossed his eyebrows and dashed onto Fluttershy's face, hitting and kicking her in between the eyes.
"Ouch! W-will you please stop that Angel... if you can, it really hurts me...". Fluttershy was already at the edge of crying, her teary eyes would only last so much longer... “This is the only cupcake I could get from Sugarcube Corner… I’m sorry… it was the very last one too, I had Pinkie make it specially for you, I-I was pretty sure you would like it”.
But that didn't affect the spoiled white angry creature in front of her. He proceeded to pull the cream pony's mane and managed to get a stream of pink hair out of her head. The pain was too much for her. She screamed and immediately galloped upstairs into her bedroom, closing the door gently behind her. Angel, angry and furious, kicked every object from the tidy clean room and left a chaotic mess. There was furniture upside down, books and plant pots broken and tables smashed. After he got tired and satisfied, he threw the carrot-frosted celery cupcake that was lying on his food tray out of the window and went to sleep.
Soon it was dark, and Fluttershy hadn't gone out of her room ever since the afternoon. Angel didn't mind this, or cared about it anyway. Hungry, he went upstairs and demanded food, knocking on her owner’s door repeatedly, then kicking and scratching it after receiving no response. After several futile attempts, he gives up and takes Fluttershy’s little pouch of bits she’s been saving for months that was on the bookshelf and goes out to eat. It wasn’t that long until he came back. Everything was as when he left the house. It seemed that Fluttershy hadn’t gone out of her room. He threw the now empty pouch back onto the bookshelf, and after several yawns and a full stomach, he hopped onto his cozy bed for a good night’s sleep.
The night was clear and silent, nothing but the wind hitting the branches outside the house could be heard. The moonlight reflected through the windows. It was indeed a beautiful summer night. Angel was fast asleep, curled into a little white furball, when suddenly faint hoofsteps could be heard a distance. The sound of the wooden boards being stepped on got closer and closer to Angel’s bed. Still asleep, a dark shadow could be seen slowly covering Angel's body and the next thing, were quick and silent hooves cutting through air, wrapping his tiny body up in a tight bag. He couldn't see anything, or even have time to scream. The next thing he felt, was a severe pain on his head. He was hit on the head by a hard object, and complete darkness followed.
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When he opened his eyes, he was inside a dark room, with no furniture at all. Maybe an hour has passed till he regained consciousness. He tried to adapt his eyes to the dark, looking around as fast as he could, trying to get a view of his surroundings and where he was. His head still hurt from the blow, but that was nothing compared to his growing fear as every second passed and nothing could be seen. The room was completely empty. The floor was grey cold rock. The only lighting available was coming through the only door. Small beams of light leaked through the edges. The bunny started panicking and sweating, thinking of where he was and why he was there. He hopped slowly trying not to make any noise while approaching the door. But when he was halfway there, it started opening slowly. He froze on the spot and stood still, puzzled while a stream of cold sweat dropped from his face to the cold rocky floor. As it opened, he could distinguish a silhouette thanks to the light from the other room. It was most likely a pony with long mane. It was very much familiar to him. That made things even worse and horrible. As the figure got closer, he got even more nervous and scared. He could only stare at what stood in front of his wide opened eyes. Now he recognized the figure. He knew her. It was no one less than his owner herself. It was the one and only. Fluttershy.
“I am s-sorry… I had to keep you waiting, but it was hard for me to get everything prepared, but I promise you this will be fast and fun”, she said slowly and finished with a small, mischievous smile.
Angel kept standing still, trying to process what was currently happening. He couldn’t believe it. Why would she do such a thing? She’s… Fluttershy! Not only the kindest and most adorable of all ponies in Equestria but also her owner and the pony who took care of him when she was only a little filly and he was a little baby. What was she preparing? And what exactly will be fast and fun? More and more thoughts and unthinkable explanations came into his mind, until suddenly a strong hoof hit his stomach and threw him back into the middle of the room. Fluttershy had already got in front of him and her face wasn’t normal. She had that scary look now.
“I… I am sorry. D-did I hurt you? If so, please excuse me, let me just help you… If you don’t mind”. She said in her soft, kind voice.
She then quickly proceeded to help Angel up, but he was too frightened and scared to be able to react. What was going on? She stretched her hoof and help him stand up. But immediately something wasn’t right. In less than one second, the poor bunny was flying through the air and a hard slam was heard afterwards. His body just hit the wooden door and then fell onto the floor as Fluttershy tossed him across the room.
“D-don’t worry… I didn’t forget… I know you always wanted to fly… now you have experienced flight… all by yourself. I-I am so proud of you…!”. Fluttershy said with a scary tone as she went closer to the door.
Angel couldn’t move. His rear legs were most likely broken by the impact and he was in so much pain that he was squealing so hard already that his chest couldn’t take it anymore. But no pain was worse than the fact that Fluttershy was doing that to him. Suddenly, a memory came to his mind. Some time ago, seeing all the cute birds, Rainbow Dash, and even his pet, Tank, be able to fly by themselves, he felt really jealous that he couldn’t do so, like the others. Even Twilight had a balloon and Pinkie had that bicycle-copter! He was tired of riding on Fluttershy’s back, so he demanded some way to be able to fly. The next thing, he yelled at the poor kind pony for not being able to fly and ran away. Everyone spent days trying to look for him, specially his owner, until one day she could find him hiding in the middle of Everfree Forest. He never realized she went through so much trouble and pain, to track him down and venture into the scariest forest in Equestria, and being Fluttershy that made it an even harder feat to achieve. But now he did, and was really sorry.
Before he could think of anything else, the pony had pulled a wooden rack from the other room into the dark rocky place. It had four leather straps that could be adjusted easily by moving the wooden shafts according to the size of the body. She quickly grabbed him and tied him up, tightening the straps around his paws. He made a loud and painful cry when she had to grab and secure his broken legs.
“Oh my little baby Angel, you are in so much pain… I… I am so sorry you had to go through this. It seems that your legs are broken, but don’t you worry… Mommy is here to take care of you. I can FIX those legs for you! Right NOW!”, yelled the pony with enthusiasm.
Another flashback came to Angel’s mind, the last time he had something broken was a year ago. He got his left paw smashed by a muffin that fell from the sky. It fell from such a long distance that it gained enough speed that it had the power and weight of a bowling ball. Still today, no one knows how could that happen. After the painful strike, he ran to Fluttershy and demanded for help, but she couldn’t do much to lower the pain at that moment, that the crazy bunny went mad and yelled at her, and proceeded to bite her several times, sinking his sabre-sharp tooth into her poor coat repeatedly that some spots were covered with red stains. He kept biting her and insulted her that she couldn’t do a better job and take the pain away. Not until the rest of the ponies saw that aggression and pulled him away from harming her. The rest of the day was a nightmare.
“…and unlike last time, this won’t hurt at ALL! I… promise.”, assured Fluttershy.
She had several tools she used to cure and heal the little animals with her, near the rack. She grabbed a hammer and a small, long nail. Angel was sweating with fear, and shaking so hard that the rack was making a slight vibrating noise when the uneven base hit the solid ground. There was nothing he could do.
Fluttershy then got near the patient, and stuck her hoof into one of the bunny’s rear legs. He poked hard into the skin, and pressed even deeper into the broken tibia and torn muscle. The screaming was so loud that she used her other hoof to cover his mouth.
“I-If you don’t mind… I’ll fix the tibia for you right now. I can feel it’s… split into two. W-We can join that and make it look like new! DON’T MOVE!”, and suddenly struck the nail into his hind leg but missed because he was kicking so much that it went right across his hock and part of it got buried inside his flank.
The pain he felt was too much to deal with, he couldn’t bare it any longer. Blood started dripping off the wound and stained his white fur with red. His bladder couldn’t hold much long too, so in a few seconds time yellow liquid was flowing down his legs and dripping onto the floor.
“I’m sorry… but it was your fault. I told you not to move!”, she said shaking his head in disappointment. “…but don’t worry… your other foot will be better”.
After a quick search of her tools, she got hold of a little scalpel used for minor surgeries.
“Umm… maybe I lied about not hurting at all… but I’m sure you will forgive me will you?”, she said.
She then grabbed the poor rabbit’s leg, stretched it and made a deep cut through the fur and right into the muscle. Digging even harder, she reached the fibula bone and could feel the connection between the two bones. She made a huge effort to cut the joint and tear the leg off his body, making the bunny cry as he watched his leg be torn apart and be hung up on a string.
“I heard once, if I remember correctly… that Zecora said these were for good luck… I think this looks nice. I will wear it all the time from now on! It will remind me of you! Thank you Angel!” laughed Fluttershy as she tied the string into her neck, wearing it as a necklace.
Blood kept pouring and the bunny already passed out. A big red puddle was already forming at the base of the rack.
“Oh, I am so sorry you had to go sleep right now… you ARE a baby after all!”, she said “but first, let me stop that horrible bleeding!”.
A cloud of smoke formed into the room as the pony used a flamegun to burn and seal the flesh of the poor animal. The bleeding completely stopped, and the smell of cooked meat could be sniffed through all the room.
“I am so glad that we got this from the garage sale from the Flim Flam brothers last week…”, she said happily. “At first I… didn’t want to get it, but now I don’t regret it at all!”.
Angel surely knew the flamegun, but didn’t know what it could do. According to the brothers, it was part of the “The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000” but they replaced it for another piece so it was for sale. The last week they both went to their garage-sale in Ponyville outskirts and he wanted it so badly to add to his collection of toys that he begged the pony to buy it from them, but the price was too much for her to be able to afford. After countless attempts, and kicks and yells, and the kind offer of Flim to reduce the price for 1 bit, she bought it, but after they went home he never used it or played with it. It just lay there like trash.
His eyes suddenly opened. His face was covered with cold, icy water. He wanted to scream, it was all a horrible nightmare. At least he wished it was.
“Hush now… quiet now… it’s time to wake you sleepyhead… O-Oh my, you’re awake! I’m so sorry you missed all the fun!”, said the pony.
He looked down at his missing leg and felt sick. He couldn’t hold it any longer. He vomited and soon he was covered with chunks of his expensive dinner. The stench was awful, urine with acidic juices and the smell of blood altogether, made him go dizzy and crazy. He wanted to black out again, for everything to be over. But he couldn’t.
“Oh dear, look at all the mess you made. I better clean this up before the parasprites come!”. She dashed to grab a mop and bucket, and came back as fast as she could. “…oh, and please you will help me, will you?”, she said with an evil grin.
She absorbed all the puddle of mess and then squeezed the contents from the mop into the bucket. Angel shook his head forcefully as he knew what was going to happen next. The pony grabbed a funnel from the toolbox and stuck it in his mouth, but the bunny spit it out.
“Oh please, don’t make me do it the hard way, will you?” and stuck the funnel deep with force into his throat, that he didn’t have enough force to spit it out.
She proceeded empty the bucket of filth into the funnel and into his mouth and make him drink every single drop of it. None got wasted, but shortly after Angel puked again.
“Aww… I thought you liked the expensive food! It even has some special ingredients with it, since you didn’t like the cupcake… oh well. Hey… maybe y-you would like something else! Something better… like YOU!”, said Fluttershy with an extremely excited and creepy tone.
She pulled a butcher’s knife from the box and held it between her teeth. Angel closed his eyes. A quick slash sliced his belly open and all his entrails dropped out, hanging off the body. He couldn’t last any much longer, seeing his own body organs. It was the end. Fluttershy grabbed a handful of his intestines and stuffed them inside the rabbit’s mouth. He was already gone, and seeing that, she moved his jaw up and down so he could chew his entrails.
“Bon appetite my little Angel!”, she said as she shut the door behind her.
