The Lycan Curse
Chapter 9: The Derps, the Loons, and the Royals.
Previous ChapterNext ChapterTwilight finished wrapping Spike up in a blanket as he passed out almost immediately. The sun was beginning to set now and Fluttershy sat in the parlour downstairs humming quietly to herself. With a look at the clock Twilight went downstairs to discuss certain related matters with Fluttershy.
Fluttershy looked up, "So, how is he?"
"Fine, I will have to ask him what he got into in the morning." Responded Twilight.
Suddenly, somepony knocked on the door, and Twilight readily asked, "Who is it?"
On cue, Rainbow Dash came in the window at the other side of the library, and said, "Twilight! Why is the royal guard demanding I meet with them?! Is the Princess coming? Is it a secret Wonderbolts tryout?!"
Twilight stuffed a sock in Rainbows mouth with magic, and said "I don't know! You'll have to ask them when you arrive, but I am worried about this. I mean, since when does the royal guard hold discrete meetings with certian groups of ponies?" she paused for a second, "Only when they are interrogating suspects."
Fluttershy gasped as Rainbow spat out the sock, who uses socks in Equestria anyway?
"Suspects?! You mean like if somepony shoplifted!?!?!?" Asked Fluttershy in a rather terrified tone.
"Actually, they usually only do this in serious crimes, such as... murder..." said Twilight.
Rainbow Dash huffed as Fluttershy pretty much passed out, "I didn't kill anypony! Why would they think I am a suspect!?"
Twilight replied, "Calm down! If you didn't do anything, you will be fine! Besides, they also interview possible witnesses."
Fluttershy sat up, and slightly balled up, "I-I-I guess, I did witness something..."
Rainbow Dash and Twilight came closer, "What was it?!" asked Twilight.
Fluttershy continued "I-I-I s-saw,... I SAW A SQUIRREL STEAL NUTS FROM THE MARKET!"
Twilight and Rainbow Dash facehoof'd, as Twilight said, "Well, if that is all, then you shouldn't need to worry about anything."
Right when the clock struck the next hour, somepony knocked on the door. Twilight opened it to see a single royal guard member, whom spoke before Twilight could say anything.
"Pegasi report to the Town Hall immediately."
Rainbow sized up the Royal guard pegasus, and said "Why do we need to go there anyway?"
"You will be informed by officers there, now come along or we will take you by force." replied the guard.
Twilight shrugged to Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy trotted toward the door with her head down. The guard shut the door and escorted the two toward the Town Hall.
Once they had left, Twilight trotted back to her study while thinking. With a look at the book on her desk, a thought hit her, and she readily grabbed a few things and headed toward Town Hall, to be stopped by a certain Princess.
---------------Town Hall-------------
Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy crammed into the town hall, filled with just about every other pegasi in town. Around the room were about a dozen royal guards, and everypony waited around in the middle. Fluttershy looked for a secluded spot to wait, while Rainbow Dash eyed everything, sizing up the guards.
Suddenly, two guards shut the doors, and put a lock on them. Not long after, all of the large windows were covered, and it looked as though they were about to get an explanation on what was going on.
It was then, that Fluttershy saw Omnitreza walk out infront of the crowd, of which confused and slightly frightened her.
"Hello Every... um... Pony! For most of you this won't take long and you can continue lives as usual." Started Omnitreza, "Yet, it seams somepony here has done, or more correctly is something we need to catch."
Rainbow Dash looked at Fluttershy, "Who is this guy?"
"He's, uh..." started Fluttershy
Omnitreza eyed the crowd, and continued "I will walk by each one of you, If I say good, you can leave. If I say stay, you stay her for further analysis."
Rainbow Dash spoke up, "Uh, just one question, who are you?"
Omnitreza frowned, "I am a worker for the Princesses under the mythical and dangerous creature control devision. On a side note your voice is... bleh."
Rainbow glared at him, as Omnitreza began to walk beside the crowd. He would stare at each pony for a few seconds, then excuse them. This continued until he got to Featherweight, as he said stay. Later, a few more pegasi had to stay, such as Derpy and one of Rainbow Dash's fellow cloud devision members.
He then came eye to eye with Rainbow Dash, and immediately said, "Stay..." in a rather strict tone, leaving Rainbow to just glare back.
Next he came eye to eye with Fluttershy, who said, "U-Uh, hi... you were at my house earlier..."
Omnitreza didn't change his expression, as he started closer at Fluttershy, and said "Yes...and..."
He then came really close to her eyes, and eventually said, "Stay here."
Fluttershy gulped, unsure of what she did wrong. Rainbow trotted next to her, and said "This guy is odd... I don't think we can trust him."
Fluttershy responded, "I wonder why he kept us here..."
In a few minutes, the Town Hall was much emptier, other than 16 pegasi left, and the royal guards surrounding the room. Omnitreza came back upfront and adressed the group.
"Alright, now that you all are still here, I will let you in on something. We need to test each one of you to check for anything unnatural."
A red pegasus raised an eyebrow, and asked "Like what?"
Omnitreza turned to a large chest being brought in, and replied "Things such as unusual anger, hair growth, hyperventilating, and acting like a canine."
Everypony in the group looked around confused, except for Rainbow and Fluttershy, both left stone cold in realization.
"Oh." is all Fluttershy managed.
"Fluttershy... do you think he meant...?"
Fluttershy nodded, and Rainbow continued, "Um, keep your cool, I will think of something."
Omnitreza opened the chest, revealing multiple needles filled with a greyish-green liquid. He then put gloves on his for-hooves, and readied the first one. Then he pointed to Featherweight, who trotted up slowly.
"This is going to sting a bit..." Said Omnitreza, as he immediately jabbed the needle into Featherweights arm, resulting in a shriek and jolt reaction from him.
Omnitreza set the needle down on a small table, and eyed Featherweight for a few moments, before saying "Alright, you can go, grab a cookie on the way out."
He continued this process on 7 more ponies, most of which taking it just fine, before coming up to Rainbow Dash.
"Your turn."
Rainbow Dash stared at the needle in his hoof, and said, "I am, uh, afriad of, needles."
Omnitreza raised an eyebrow, "Uggg, it is just one small sting, suck it up."
Rainbow backed away, as two royal guard members slowly came toward her. "But, isn't there a, less needly way?"
Omnitreza slapped his hoof to his face and said "HMMMMMMMM, Nope!"
Rainbow Dash looked at the guards around her, and as Omnitreza came up to her, she bolted away, and was immediatly tackled.
"HEY! Let me go!" she yelled trying to fight the guard with little succes.
The guards then held her on the ground, and extended her for-leg out. Omnitreza quickly stabbed the needle to her arm, and he instantly received an ear retching scream and a buck to the face.
With that, the guards held her down harder, as one prepared some sort of blow gun. Omnitreza quickly stood up, and trotted to Rainbow Dash.
"I Despise you... I infact hope that your the one..."
A few minutes passed, and nothing happened, so Omnitreza sighed, and said, "Screw you..." before he got another needle ready.
Fluttershy sat there with unflinching eyes staring at the needle, anticipating it stabbing her, afraid that the liquid might reveal her, condition. Omnitreza turned toward her, and trotted up slowly, each step hitting her heart as it raced in fear.
"Now, You seam a bit more polite, please hold out your for-leg, either one."
Fluttershy stuttered, "I-I, uh..."
"Come now, it will only sting for a moment... unless in a certain case... then it will sting, then hurt, then make you feel like your body is being reformed, then sting others."
Fluttershy backed away, "C-Can't I just..."
Suddenly, Rainbow yelled from the other side of the room, "Leave her alone you jerk!"
Omnitreza turned back, and yelled, "Give her another dose!"
One guard quickly pulled out another needle, and flew over to Rainbow Dash, who responded "Wait! no! I already- AAAAOOOOUUUUUUUUCCCHHH!"
Omnitreza turned back to Fluttershy, "Now come along, I don't have all day."
Fluttershy slowly put out her hoof, and breathed in deeply anticipating the worse. Omnitreza was about to inject her, when suddenly... DERPY ATTACK!
"YOU WILL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE! TO THE BATMOBILE!" Yelled Derpy Hooves as she flew into a pillar, shook her head, and flew towards a window, breaking it and flying off.
"GET HER!" Yelled Omnitreza, as three guards quickly pursued the wild muffin consumer.
Fluttershy looked around, and saw Rainbow Dash signaling to go to the door. She nodded, and trotted with speed. She almost was to the door, only to be stopped by Omnitreza stepping infront of her.
"Were are you going? Were not done yet!" He said glaring.
Fluttershy stuttered out "I-I-I though t-that."
"You could get away? Come on, it's obvious now! I was going to be dramatic, but here, let me get you in character before I move on."
Fluttershy was suddenly held down by two Royal guards, as Omnitreza walked up with a menacing stare.
When suddenly, DISCORD ATTACK!
Omnitreza raised an eyebrow as he looked up to see the roof being lifted up by a large claw, revealing Discord, god of chaos. Omnitreza only sighed, as he was crushed under a large pie.
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash stared in shock, as Discord flashed next to the Guards and said, "You changelings think your all that JUST because you can change shape! While I can do that an much more!"
He snapped his fingers, instantly turning all of the guards to changeling form, most of which flew away in panic.
Discord then looked to Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, and said "Celestia redirected me from my certian, duties, based on the guess something was going down here. More or less by guess, though I can get a hunch that something is going on MUCH more often than her. But anyway, her I am!"
Fluttershy smiled, "Well, I haven't seen you for a while since Celestia had you working on whatever it is you were doing... but, perhaps you should put the roof back on the building..."
Discord sighed, "Fine!" and with a flash the roof building was back in place.
Right about then, Twilight, Luna, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie rushed in the main door.
"Oh, your alright!" Said Twilight with a sigh, "Luna told us all that Omnitreza was behind this, and he was trying to reveal you!"
Applejack added "So we all came here ready for a rodeo, but it seams y'all got it handled."
Rainbow Dash chuckled, "It's fine, I was just about to pull off my new moves on these guys right before 'lord of chaos' here burst in."
Discord appeared next to Rainbow Dash, and said "When I came in it looked somewhat like you were subdued by some simple changelings, Or was it just that your to unskilled to bother doing anything about it?"
Rainbow huffed, as Pinkie Pie hopped over too Fluttershy, "We aren't going to let some old mean politician hurt our friends anyway!"
Luna added "I did say I was watching over you, I just needed to get some help before I just jumped in."
Rarity responded to luna "But did you honestly need that uncivilized jerk that hardly deserves to call himself a deity?"
Applejack looked at Rarity and replied, "Like you would deal with these guys that easily."
Discord added "Besides, I am the one with the power to turn all of your fancy clothes into fish whenever I want! I just don't out of respect for your friends, but that won't go too far."
When suddenly... OMNITREZA WITH A NEEDLE ATTACK!
Right then, Fluttershy felt a sharp pain in her right shoulder. As she looked to see a needle stabbed in, and Omnitreza grinning menacingly as he backed away. Fluttershy instantly shrieked, pulled it out, while backed away.
"Have fun with your mut!" he yelled, as a changeling picked him up and flew off at high speed.
Luna quickly yelled, "AFTER HIM!" in her cerimonial Canterlot voice.
Discord glared, and said, "I'm on it", as he flashed away.
Fluttershy still stood there staring in near shock at the needle on the ground, as she felt her heartbeat quickly increase, and her head starting to feel slightly dizzy.
Twilight came up to her, "Fluttershy, are you alright?"
Fluttershy looked at Twilight, as she felt felt her right for-leg shaking, and responded. "NO!"
Luna investigated Fluttershy, and said "Uh oh... Try to calm yourself, and take deep breaths..."
Fluttershy looked at Luna, and said, "Everypony, get away from me!"
Before anyone could respond, Fluttershy bolted out the door, and ran down the road towards her house and the Everfree forest.
Applejack quickly said, "She's not... Uh oh! Wait up girl! Ah'm coming!", as she sprinted after Fluttershy.
Rainbow Dash quickly said "This isn't good!" as she flew down the road, while Pinkie and Rarity followed down yelling.
Luna and Twilight quickly ran after as well, while Discord was still doing... something.
Fluttershy ran by all of the buildings barely thinking about what she was doing. Her only real goal was to get away from everyone else. As she went she could feel her body shake more, and her headache rapidly increasing.
She heard Rainbow Dash calling out, and didn't even look, she just continued running toward her house. As Fluttershy came to a turn toward her road, she slid by, and leapt forward down to her house, while feeling her wings beginning to change. That prompted her to run faster.
Then, Fluttershy saw her home, and ran up and slamed on the door. She rapidly pawed at it, and could not even remember how to open it. She then looked back, and saw her tail grown out and changing to a darker red colour.
"Fluttershy! Hang on!" yelled Rainbow Dash as she flew up behind Fluttershy.
Fluttershy looked back, showing Rainbow yellow eyes, with a definite look of fear.
"Get, a-a-away!" said Fluttershy as her body shivered more and her wings grew out longer.
Applejack ran up closely followed by everyone else, only to see Fluttershy bolt off into the forest at high.
Applejack breathed heavily, "Ah didn't know she could move that fast!"
Rarity wheezed, and said "Maybe we should, *wheeze*, just leave her be to get over this..."
Pinkie wasn't having any trouble breathing, "We can't just leave her alone! What if she hurts herself?!"
Luna landed on the ground, as Twilight came up behind.
"I will take care of this, wait here for Discord." said Luna, as she flew over into the Everfree Forest.
Fluttershy's mind raced, as did her heart. All she knew was she had to keep her head and keep going forward. She had literally no idea were she was, and got more and more confused as her body changed shape.
Eventually, she slammed her head into a tree, and flew onto the ground on her back.
"O-Ow!" was all she could manage, as she attempted to get her bearings, only getting dizzier and more confused.
She then looked at her arm, as the fur was growing out and getting darker, while the rest of her body grew out. She then managed a scream, then howl, before blacking out.
Author's Note
This is my attempt to insert recent cannon into the fic.
Anyway, I have nothing else to say.
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