Inner Hauntings

A/N: Sorry it took so long to get another chapter out. Work has been hectic.

Planning

A week passed after the incident at Fluttershy’s cottage. The missing pony granted a fairly large local search and investigation but nothing had ever been found. Of course, they had questioned Fluttershy. But, she found it easy to avoid an in-depth questioning because no pony would believe she had anything to do with it. She was just too shy and innocent.

Much to Fluttershy’s dismay, the memory of her murdering that poor unsuspecting stallion continually found its way into her thoughts. And the more she thought of it, the more she found that it did not bother her. As horrible as some pony’s murder was, Fluttershy found that the deed - to her - had been necessary.

Interupting her thoughts, Fluttershy heard a knock upon her door. The easily surprised and scared pony found herself more annoyed than surprised by the intrusion. With a graceful few steps, Fluttershy arrived at the door and pulled it open. Now, she was surprised. It was her good friend Rainbow Dash. The cyan pony grinned at her. “Hiya Fluttershy!” Rainbow spoke.

“Oh. Hello, Rainbow Dash. How are you today?” Fluttershy asked.

“Great! I just came here to ask you something.”

“What it is?” Fluttershy asked with a slight tilt of her head.

Rainbow Dash suddenly brushed up next to Fluttershy, threw a hoof over her shoulder and stared up at the sky as she spoke. “I wanted to show you and the girls a new trick I thought up.” She paused for a moment and slipped her hoof off Fluttershy’s shoulder. “Buuuut, I know you don’t like crowds and all that, so I wanted to show you now. Do you have time?” Rainbow Dash asked with an expectant spark in her eye. One Fluttershy was quite familiar with.
After trying to think of a couple of excuses to decline, Fluttershy spoke up. “Well, I really do need to do some house work, but I guess it’s okay.” She forced a small smile toward her friend and followed Rainbow away from her cottage.

Finding herself in a large open field filled with unkempt grass nearly growing up to her knees, Fluttershy looked up as Rainbow Dash took off to the skies. As usual, Rainbow ascended into the sky quickly, leaving a coattail of rainbow colors behind her. Conveniently, there was a dark rain cloud that Dash had placed in the sky above the field a few minutes before. After doing numerous barrel rolls, spins, loops, and other easy maneuvers, Rainbow Dash circled the rain cloud as fast as she could, keeping the corner tight against the cloud. It started to spin. Once the cloud got to a decent momentum, Rainbow dash shot higher into the sky. She then did a quick tuck in of her wings to stall out and turn in the air to face the ground. Dash took off into a dive after the short stall, crashing into the rain cloud. Instead of bursting apart like usual, Rainbow Dash disappeared into the cloud for a moment before there was a large flash of light. Fluttershy covered her eyes for a moment, barely catching the four lightning bolts as they lashed out in the sky in quite the performance.
Fluttershy clapped her hooves together for a moment. “That was a great trick, Rainbow.” She said as the cyan pony landed not too far off.

“Ha, thanks Fluttershy. I can’t wait to show this to everypony else. Catch you later Fluttershy!” And after a quick wave, Rainbow dashed off toward the main part of town.

Once Fluttershy was alone, she sat down on her rump and looked off toward town. She sighed quietly. Left alone in her thoughts, she sat there and stared at the few wispy clouds in the sky. The same thought continued to reach into her mind and pervade her thoughts. She wanted to kill again. There were too many people that mistreated her, even in Ponyville. She couldn’t let these transgressors go unpunished. Too long had she been walked on like a doormat.

With new found motivation, Fluttershy stood on her four hooves and trotted into Ponyville. The distance was not too far and so she reached Ponyville quite quickly. As Fluttershy grew close to the town square, she slowed to a walk and looked around carefully. She had who she wanted to find on her mind. Now, it was just the hard part of finding the pony she sought.
As the minutes dragged on, Fluttershy began to get slightly flustered at her lack of success. Where could that dopey gardener be? She thought as she passed the flower shop. She stopped, a sound caught her ear, specifically a voice. She took a few steps back and peered into the open door of the flower shop. There he was; the stallion that always seemed to get her gardening needs mixed up: Mr Greenhooves. Fluttershy’s brow furrowed for a moment at her initial thought, and then a crooked grin came over her face for a little longer than a moment.

The pink haired mare dipped into the alley between the flower shop and somepony’s house and waited for the stallion to exit. She planned on tailing him until he was alone enough to ensnare him.