The four friends watched in horror as the fires were extinguished. The fire-fighter ponies ran in and out with hoses, axes and various other objects.
"Oh my gosh, do you think Fluttershy was, well, you know" Rarity gasped, not daring to say what she was thinking.
"Don't you be worryin' none sugar cube, ah'm sure she'll have been out with her animal pals" Applejack said comfortingly, putting a hoof on Rarity's shoulder.
"Yeah, Applejacks right. Fluttershy will be fine. By the way, has anyone seen Pinkie" Rainbow Dash chimed in.
"The last I saw her, she said she was going to see Flutter..." Twilight stopped, putting a hoof to her mouth. Then a shout made all their heads turn. It was a fire-fighter. He was waving his hooves, signalling to his partners. He'd found something. Some pony.
"C'mon girls, lets go see what's happening" Twilight said, sounding more worried that she thought. As they approached the fire-fighter pony tried to stop them but Applejack pushed past.
"Oh Celestia no" Applejack whimpered as she fell to the ground. In front of her laid the charred remains of a pink pony, small strands of hair clung to her burnt scalp.
"W-wait, did you find anypony else" Rainbow asked the fire-fighter, tears beginning to well up in her eyes.
"No, that was all we found. I'm sorry for your loss. We'll take the body to the morgue" the fire-fighter said. Two of his team collected Pinkie, slipped her into a body bag and put into the ambulance that had arrived on scene moments earlier. Twilight moved over to Applejack and comforted her. They both cried together.
Rarity turned to Rainbow "that means our darling Fluttershy is safe. We need to find her" Rarity said wiping her eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, I suppose. We should look for her I guess" Rainbow whimpered. "Lets try town."

Fluttershy skulked through the town, Pinkie's screams of anguish fresh in her mind. She replayed the night's scenes over and over in her head, trying to remember all the delicious details. Then her mind snapped back to focus. She had to concentrate. Who was her next target. Who would she kill next. Faces of ponies flashed through her mind. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash. Rarity niggled in her mind like an itch that needed scratching. 'Rarity it is' She thought. But how was she to do it. Fluttershy wandered down the street thinking about it. Ponies past her and gave her funny looks, seeing as she had bloodshot eyes, dilated pupils and a messy mane and coat. Flutts kept walking, paying no attention to her surroundings. She ignored the glistening snowflakes she would have once found beautiful. Then she looked up. She was outside the Carousel Boutique. 'Perfect' Fluttershy thought, shivering slightly from the cold. She walked to the door and brought her hoof up and knocked. No answer. She tried again, but still no answer. 'Damn it, guess I better look elsewhere'. Fluttershy turned and walked a few steps before she saw her. Rarity ran around the corner. She stopped and looked at her timid friend.
"Darling, there you are" Rarity shouted, running towards her timid friend. "Where have you been. Something terrible has happened. It's Pinkie, she's...she's dead." With that Fluttershy acted surprised and pretended to faint. " Oh goodness" Rarity exclaimed. She took hold of Fluttershy and dragged her into the Boutique. She laid her gently down on the floor and grabbed a pillow. She slipped it under Fluttershy's head and then walked over to the door to shut it. When she turned around she saw Fluttershy stood up in the centre of the room.
"Oh, darling, Your up. I didn't expect you to come around so soon" Rarity laughed, slightly surprised.
"Well, It would be to do with the fact that i faked passing out" Flutts said calmly.
"Faking. why, whatever for" Rarity said, shocked.
"To get you by yourself of course" Flutts said matter of factly.
"What, why? What do you mean?" Rarity said, confused.
"Well, you know Pinkie and the fire? It was me, now I'm here for you" Fluttershy said, a glint of excitement flashing in her eye.
"What! Are you joking! That's not the slightest bit funny" Rarity gasped, slowly backing away.
"Of course I'm not. Now come here" With that Fluttershy dived at Rarity. Rarity quickly darted out of the way and ran across the room. Before she reached the other side she felt something heavy land on her back. She looked around to see Fluttershy clung to her back. Rarity tried to shake her off but to no avail. Fluttershy was holding on tight. Fluttershy raised her head up and brought her teeth down around Rarity's shoulder. She bit deep and pulled back, tearing a chunk of flesh out. Rarity thrashed around and screamed. Fluttershy kept hold and before long Rarity's world began to turn black.

When Rarity came around she could she Fluttershy stood over a table that she must have dragged into the middle of the room. Rarity tried to moved but, to her surprise, found she had been bound. She hung from the ceiling by tightly tied fabrics that had been wrapped around her front hooves. She could still place her hind legs on the ground. She tried to move but pain shot through her body from the bite wound. She gasped at her pain which made Fluttershy turn.
"Ah, your awake. And here I thought I'd have to wake you up myself" Fluttershy said, a look of disappointment quickly appearing then disappearing on her face.
"Fluttershy! What is the meaning of this! What is wrong with you!" Rarity shouted, hardly keeping the terror form her voice.
"Did I tell you to talk to me" Fluttershy shouted, quickly darting across the room. She hit Rarity hard around the face with her hoof. It left a bright red mark. Tears began to form in Rarity's eyes.
"B-but I thought w-we were f-friends" Rarity whispered. Tears ran down her face and dripped of the end of her nose.
Fluttershy laughed. "Oh Rarity. Sweet, kind Rarity. I hate all of you and I'm going to kill all of you. Now act like a big mare and take your punishment." Fluttershy spun back round a trotted over to the table. The table held many instruments, Needles, scissors and a knife. She hovered her hoof over all of them before settling on the needles. She picked one up and collected some thread from a nearby shelf. She threaded it through the eye of the needle and the trotted casually over to Rarity.
"Now then. Where to start" Fluttershy mumbled to herself. Rarity sniffled, snot running from her nose. Fluttershy looked up to rarity's face, catching a glimpse of her pleading gaze. Fluttershy felt a second of guilt, but it quickly faded. "Now that's just disgusting for a lady such as yourself" Fluttershy remarked." Lets sort that out" Fluttershy brought the needle up towards Rarity's face, having to slightly hover as her friend's face was just out of reach. She began to push the needle through the skin of the fashionista's left nostril and quickly began to work, sowing up her entire nostril. The unicorn winced in pain. Thoughts raced through her mind.' Why' and 'how' were two questions she wanted answering. Fluttershy turned her focus on Rarity's right nostril, quickly working her magic on that one too. Before long, both nostrils were tightly sown shut. Fluttershy walked back over to the table and collected a new needle, as the previous one had bent from use. As she threaded the new needle Rarity spoke up.
"Why. Why are you doing this" Rarity whimpered.
"Well, I got tired of be seen a a pushover. Seen as a doormat. As a pony that anypony can get to do what they want but not let that pony do what they want" as she spoke the last few words she banged a hoof down on the table.
"Darling, I never saw you as that" Rarity said, surprised. "Please let me go and we can forget all of this ordeal. We can get you some professional help or som-"
"NO" Fluttershy screamed as she spun around and darted towards Rarity, knife in hoof. She plunged the knife into Rarity's stomach. Rarity's eyes widened in pain. She opened her mouth and let out a loud scream.
"No help. I don't need it. I never need it again" Fluttershy growled. She released her hold of the knife, leaving it in bedded into Rarity. Fluttershy walked back over to the table and continued threading the needle. Blood pumped from the sides of the knife and rolled down the white mare's coat. Then Rarity decided, Fluttershy was beyond reason. She would use her magic to pull out the knife and cut her bonds. Then she would run. Run as fast as she could. Rarity tried to summon her magic. No response. She tried again, but still no response.
"Looking for this" Fluttershy said not removing her eyes from her work. In one hoof she held up a white horn. Rarity gasped. "It took a lot of effort to get off, but I thought it would be a nice trinket. You really are the generous Rarity" Fluttershy laughed. She turned back to Rarity, needle in hoof, and trotted over to her. "You know, this reminds me of those dirty films we once watched together. You remember, the one where the Stallion tied up that mare." Rarity remembered, and even at this time of suffering, the memories of the film made her wet. She felt pain from her wounds but also a desire from her wetness, It was a strange combination. Fluttershy looked down to see Rarity's dripping plot. Rarity also looked down, only just realising that her goods were on display. She blushed as Fluttershy leaned closer.
"Hmm, I guess you do remember. I bet you just want to run upstairs now. Get your toys and satisfy your wetness. or maybe day dream about some prince giving you a good rut" Fluttershy chuckled. "Well you only have me" Fluttershy leaned closer and gave a deep lick. Rarity tried her best to contain her moans but as Fluttershy continued to probe it became too much of a task.
"Ohh my" Rarity moaned.
Fluttershy pulled back. "that's all your getting" the pegasus said, leaving the mare wanting. "Now then. Lets sow that up. After all, somepony could slip in that and break their neck" Fluttershy leaned down once more and jabbed the needle into the soft flesh around Rarity's marehood. Rarity flinched and tried to pull away but it was in vain. Before long Fluttershy stood back up straight.
"There" the pegasus said to herself. "Now I'm gonna hurt you, a lot. But first, there something I want to do." The yellow mare collected the pair of scissors form the table and brought it up towards Rarity's head. She flew up so she could reach. She began to cut along her scalp, removing Rarity's purple, flowing locks. As they dropped to the floor she moved to Rarity's flank and did the same to her tail.
"There we go. Now I'm gonna make you unrecognisable" She told hold of the knife and yanked it out of Rarity, gaining a scream of pain. She the began to slice at Rarity's body, making small cuts and nicks with the knife. She danced the blade around Rarity's body until nearly every inch of her body had a small cut on it.
"You'll bleed to death now" Fluttershy said, grinning at her works.
"P-p-p-lease" Rarity mumbled.
"Oh be quiet" Fluttershy scolded. She grabbed the needle and brought it up to her lips and sowed them shut.
"That'll shut you up." Rarity tried to mumble some words but winced at the pain of her lips being pulled shut. Rarity looked into Fluttershy's eyes and the yellow pegasus looked away. Something was niggling at her. Rarity looking at her that way made her feel guilty. She brought the needle to her face and began to sow her eyes shut. 'There, now she can't look at me'.

Rainbow Dash flew through the dark, frosty streets of Ponyville scanning every dark corner for Fluttershy. Pinkie Pie's charred corpse kept floating back into her mind every time she began to forget. Tears were still flowing freely from her eyes and she just wanted to go home and mourn. But that was something she couldn't do. Not until she knew Fluttershy was safe. It had now been half an hour and still no luck. 'Maybe Rarity has had better luck' Dash thought. She flew back to the site of the catastrophe and approached Twilight.
"Hey Twi. Has Rarity been back at all" Rainbow asked.
"N-no, she's n-not" Twilight managed through sobs.
"Oh, ok" Dash said.'I'll try the Boutique. Maybe Rarity found Fluttershy and took her back there' she thought to herself. She turned and flew off towards the Carousel Boutique. By the time she arrived the sun was beginning to rise. She stopped and marvelled on how the light danced and reflected off of the crisp white snow. 'How could everything be so peaceful when something so terrible has happened'? She landed and trotted over to the door. She knocked lightly. She was so tired. She only realised how long she had been up. No answer. She pushed on the door. It was open. 'That's not like Rarity to leave the door unlocked'. She creaked the door fully open and stepped into the boutique's inner sanctum. All the lights were off. She couldn't see a thing. Then she felt something on the floor. something wet. She looked down to she that she had stepped in a red liquid. Blood.
"Rarity! Rarity are you ok!" Rainbow Dash shouted, her voice filled with worry. Suddenly the lights flickered on and in front of her hung a blood red unicorn. Rarity's lifeless body was blood soaked and hung above a giant puddle of blood. Then the door slammed shut, making Dash jump. She spun around to see Fluttershy, wild eyed, blood covered and holding a knife.
"Fluttershy" Rainbows said confused.
"Yes, it me." Fluttershy said as she locked the door.
"What are you doing?" Rainbow asked, backing away from the blood covered pegasus.
"Why, I'm locking the door of course" Fluttershy said, like it was obvious. She started walking towards Rainbow." Now come here" shouted Fluttershy as she darted towards Rainbow. The blue pegasus dodged out of the way and smashed through a window, peppering he body with shards of glass. A few landed on her wings and tore some feathers. She kept flapping, tiring to get as much distance from the psychotic Fluttershy as possible. When she thought she was safe she landed in an alley and slouched on a wall. She checked her wing. "Ouch" she said aloud and she touched them. She wouldn't be able to fly, it would hurt too much. She'd have to walk. She had to find her friends and tell them what she just saw. She stood up straight and headed towards the exit of the alley. As she peered out something catapulted into her, knocking her breathless. She was laying on her back, looking up towards the heavens. Then something moved into her line of sight. A mad, bloody pegasus stood over her.

Author's Note

Ooh, Rainbow's in trouble. What will happen. Will she escape, will the other friends find out, who will be the next pony to fall under Fluttershy's knife. So many questions, find out in the next chapter.