Prologue:

It was another normal afternoon in Ponyville. Rainbow Dash was sleeping on the job, Rarity was fussing over a request from another celebrity, Pinkie Pie was planning a party she was throwing the next day, Applejack was figuring out how much the family had to sell, and Twilight was reading a book.

Fluttershy’s situation, however, was a lot less normal.

"A-A-Angel! Step away from that bed!" stuttered the very frightened pegasus.

Angel just looked at her with a Really? look, as he hopped over to the bed.

"Noooo!" Yelled Fluttershy, covering her eyes as the bunny lifted the bedsheet, revealing an weasel stuffing up all sorts of random items together.

Fluttershy released a large sigh, "Oh, it is just you! I thought the movement was the boogiemare."

Angel face-palmed, then proceeded to demand his afternoon snack.

"Oh, right, right." said Fluttershy, as she got a rather overgrown carrot and plopped it in front of Angel.
After recovering from yet another false alarm, Fluttershy finished feeding all of the critters, massaging the bear, and cleaning up the house.

She finally sat on her couch, and began thinking about anything she may have missed. I fed the bunnies, birds and bees, cleaned up the house, then, I feel like I am forgetting something...

She looked around, and then stared at the calendar for about a minute, when a sudden wave of realization hit her.

"Oh No No No No No NO! How could I forget that!" Yelled Fluttershy as she ran up to the calendar for a closer look. The next day was circled with a big red circle, of which she knew what it meant.

Fluttershy quickly ran to get her saddlebag, and muttered while doing so. "I hope I am not too late! It should still be there, right?"

Angel stared at Fluttershy awkwardly as she frantically gathered multiple things, including a small garden shovel, and an odd glass container.

"Don't worry Angel, I will be back in a little bit." she said before heading out her back door.

In return, Angel shrugged, and returned to his meal.

Fluttershy trotted up toward the Everfree forest, and took a deep breath, before heading in.

"It's alright, I just need to get in, get the plant, get out. Oh please still be there."

Fluttershy trotted quickly down the narrow path, trying her best to ignore how the day seemed to be sucked away in the trees, looking more like night. After a few minutes of trotting down the spooky path, she came up to a dark cave.

"Okay, here I go!" she said while slowly stepping in.

As she walked, Fluttershy's hoof hit a rock, causing both a noise from it and a panic from her.
The frightened pegasus pressed herself against the cave wall, "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's nothing!"

As Fluttershy opened her eyes, she saw a light further into the cave.

"Is that? I think it is!" she said while heading faster and faster into the light.

Upon reaching it, Fluttershy was met with another cave opening. This one led out to a odd meadow, which did not seem like something that should be in the Everfree forest.

Fluttershy smiled, and trotted into it, but her hopes were smashed in an instant when she saw that one patch of flowers, the one she was after, had already died. The large crescent shaped patch was now a shriveled, rather depressing plot of dead plants, seaming separate from the rest of the exotic flowers in this odd meadow.

"No No No No No NO!" She said, running up to the dead flowers.

"Please let there be at least one left! Oh no, this is bad! W-What do I do now?" said Fluttershy staring at the dead flowers, hoping for at least one to be left.

After a few minutes of desperately looking, she did not find any left. With her hopes crushed, Fluttershy pressed against a nearby tree, and started to cry a little.

"Now what? And it’s tomorrow too! I have to think of something..."

---------------------An hour later at Sugarcube Corner-----------------------
Pinkie Pie hopped around her friends, going on and on about the things she had planned for the mid-spring party the next day. They all were gathered here earlier for the planning of this occasion, although Pinkie was doing most of the planning.

"The big cake will be right over there! Oh, and our pets can hang out right over there! Then after an hour or two of fun, we will..."

Twilight interrupted Pinkie "Maybe you should keep some of this for a surprise tomorrow."

Pinkie gasped "That is a GREAT idea!"

Everypony else in the room sighed in relief, and Rainbow Dash said: "Okay, so now can I have the eclair I ordered?"

"Sure thing, Dashie!" said Pinkie Pie, jumped behind the counter.

Applejack nudged Twilight on the shoulder "Have yah seen Fluttershy today? She still hasn't showed up."

Twilight looked around "No I haven't. Maybe she’s just busy, you know how she is sometimes."

Suddenly, Fluttershy came in the front door, slowly trotted up to the table, and sat down next to the others.

"Where’ve yah been Fluttershy?" asked Applejack.

"Yea, you already missed Pinkie's plan for the party tomorrow." said Rainbow Dash.

"I can repeat it if you want!" said Pinkie as she jumped over the counter and plopped a eclair in front of Rainbow Dash.

Fluttershy looked away, "Um, about that, I am afraid I won't be able to come..."

Twilight looked at Fluttershy, rather puzzled. "Yesterday you said that tomorrow was a good day. what came up?"

Fluttershy looked down, "U-Uh, Nothing, I mean, something did! And, I-I-I... I just can't come..."

Rainbow Dash took a rather large bit of the eclair, and asked "Why not? You have to have a reason!"

"Is there anything we can help with?" Applejack added.

Fluttershy quickly responded. "No, no, I-I can't say... I just won't be able to come."

Pinkie trotted over to Fluttershy, "Well, if you can't make it, I’ll postpone the party till the next day!"

"No, that's fine, you all can have fun. There is just something I need to do," said Fluttershy.

"Come now, I won't mind if I have to wait a day. We all can wait until you can come." said Rarity.

Fluttershy looked at everypony for the first time since coming in, "I wouldn't want to be a bother..."

"It's fine Fluttershy, we don't mind waiting one day." reassured Twilight.

Fluttershy looked around. "Are you sure? I mean, I won't mind too much..."

"Nah! We're waiting till y’all can make it too." said Applejack with a wink.

Fluttershy smiled a bit, "Well, thanks a lot, it means a lot to me... but I have to go now."

"No sweat Flutters!" said Rainbow Dash, as Fluttershy quickly got up and left.

Applejack watched her leave before turning to her friends. "Something seems to be buggin’ her," she said.

Twilight replied, "I don't know, maybe something embarrassing came up and she couldn't come."

Everypony was silent for a few moments, before Pinkie broke this silence. "Alright! Now I have more time to plan things! See yah!"

Author's Note

I hate pony terminology, I really do...

I may revise this more later, seams a bit sloppy to me.

And now thank Garbo802 for editing and cleaning this up more, go thank him for me.