Fluttershy's Adventure

Chapter One

A Brand New Day

It was a cold and snowy day in the town of Ponyville. The small little town is wrapping up winter and welcoming in Spring with an annual festive celebration known as "Winter Wrap Up". On this day cities like Canterlot use unicorn magic to bring in Spring, but here in Ponyville they find joy in doing it by hoof, so on the day of the wrap up all of the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns come together and divide themselves into teams, the weather team, the plants team, and the animals team. The event is organized by a purple maned unicorn by the name of Twilight Sparkle.

"Rise and shine little rabbits, time for sleeping is over, Spring is here!" said the soft spoken Fluttershy. Who was peering into a rabbit hole.

Fluttershy is a yellow maned Pegasus that loves wildlife. She has a natural talent when it comes to dealing with animals, so it was no wonder when she got chosen to be the leader of the animals team. Along with her animal talents comes a sweet but quite voice, ever since Fluttershy was a young filly in flight school, she's been very shy. Because of this she would often get stage fright when flying in front of the other students, so she wasn't a strong flyer, she also got made fun of a lot, but in her lonely time at the academy she did make one friend. The best young flyer in all of Equestria, Rainbow Dash.

"You're taking too long to wake them up." Rainbow Dash said as she hovered above Fluttershy, " How are we supposed to clear the skies if you can't get all of your animals out of their holes?"

Rainbow Dash had a unique talent of her own, she was a gifted flyer, which made her an obvious choice for the weather patrol captain.

"Animal's need to be woken calmly and slowly, if i started screaming at all of them then they would freak out and run away." Fluttershy responded. Fluttershy's love of animals got the best of her when waking up the animals.

"urghh well hurry up, we can't wait around all day for you to pony around with the animals," Rainbow Dash as she did a flip in the air, then returned up into the clouds to take a nap while she waited for her turn to get in on the action.

"Oh she's right," Fluttershy said talking to herself as she sat down on the ground in disgust,"my team is always the last team to finish up, but what are we supposed to do? If we scream at the animals then they would just run away, and we don't want that, oh no, what ever shall i do?"

She thought of everything she could to gently, but quickly wake up her animals,so she tried running around and singing a lovely song, but when Pinkie Pie, an extremely hyper pink maned Earth pony, heard her it made her want to join in, playing every instrument she could possible carry, including a trombone, the drums, and the symbols.

"Pinkie what are you doing!?" Fluttershy exclaimed, as she nervously looked around to make sure the animals weren't freaking out.

"You looked like you were having a lot of fun so I thought that i would join in and have even more fun with you, well? Was this fun or what?" Pinkie responded with a bright smile on her face.

"Um, no, not really, you see i'm trying to wake up the animals peacefully, and well you see if you're playing so loudly, it'll scare them. Also, aren't you supposed to be cutting the lakes?" Fluttershy questioned looking down at the ground then up at Pinkie Pie.

"There will be plenty of time for that later, I mean we're far ahead of your team." Pinkie said as she hoped off back to Sugarcube Corner to eat sweets

"Oh no, if they're almost done then that means that we are way behind, we need to pick up the pace and fast, we need to clear all of these holes by the end of the hour or else we won't finish on time."

Fluttershy then became frantic with worry, if she didn't finish and everypony else was late to welcome in Spring because of her, then they would get mad at her and not want to be her friend anymore. Fluttershy had gone a while without friends and usually found comfort in hanging out with her animals, but she also felt even better when she could help out her friends, even if they were doing something silly like waking up a dragon and asking him to find a new sleeping spot.

She then decided to resort to doing something she thought she'd never have to do.

"Rainbow Dash!" she tried to scream, but it didn't come out very loud. It was enough to reach Rainbow though.

"Yeah Fluttershy, is it time for us to make our rounds?" Rainbow Dash asked as she popped her head over the cloud she was resting on.

"Well actually, umm no. But I need your help, can you...umm....if you aren't busy...could you...possibly....come down here?" Fluttershy didn't normally like asking for things, even if she was asking a friend.

"Anything for you Fluttershy." she then flew down from the cloud that she was on and stood tall in front of Fluttershy, "What do you need me to do?"

Fluttershy then leaned in and whispered into Rainbow Dash's ear.

"That's all you need me to do?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yes...that is if you want to." Fluttershy responded. With a nervous expression on her face

"Sure, stand back," she said,Fluttershy aknowledged this and then took cover behind a tree.Rainbow Dash then let in a huge breath and screamed at the top of her lungs "WAKE UP YOU STUPID ANIMALS!!"

At this, every animal woke up from their hole and started running around frantically.

"Oh dear, umm excuse me, everyone, if i could have your attention." Fluttershy tried to calm them down, but to no avail, the animals were out of control with no hope of settling down.

"Wait here, i'm going to go get applejack!" Rainbow Dash said as she darted off towards the fields where the plants team were planting the crops for the upcoming year.

Applejack is a farmer at heart and knows everything there is to know about raising an apple farm, she is also quite experienced  in animal herding, hay throwing, and most importantly bucking trees with her hind hooves. She is a honest worker who loves the sense of accomplishment that comes with doing a job by herself.

"AJ!, AJ!." Rainbow Dash called out. Almost out of breath and sweating from the speed she went to get to Sweet Apple Acres.

"Yeah Rainbow, what's got you all riled up?" Applejack asked with a concerned look.

"Fluttershy's animals are going crazy, I need your help rounding them up, can you help?" Rainbow Dash asked

"Darn tootin I'll help, let me go en get Winona."

Winona is Applejack's dog, she is a hard worker with a strong bond with Applejack.

"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear." Fluttershy was in full panic mode, "What'll I  do?"

"Get along Winona, Yeee Haww!", Applejack exclaimed as she ran down the hill, "get em all bunched up Winona"

Winona responded with a bark of acknowledgement

Applejack and Winona then spent the next few minutes rounding up all of the animals, it was tiring work and it left Applejack and Winona exhausted, but never-the-less, the job was done.

"Oh thank you so much Applejack, how can i ever repay you." Fluttershy ecstatically asked.

"aww shucks, think nothing of it Fluttershy, I'm sure yall'd do the same for me." Applejack said with a blush.

"Actually, I don't think I'd ever do that for anyone." Fluttershy said embarrassed.

Applejack chuckled then said, "well I best be getting back to mu duties, I'll talk with yal later. See ya Fluttershy."

"Bye." Fluttershy said.

Fluttershy then turned to the animals and took a head count to make sure that they were all accounted for.

"One, two, three...two-hundred and fifty-three, oh dear! Where's Angel?" Fluttershy said.

She then started to frantically search for her pet rabbit angel.

"Angel, Angel!"

She called out but with no response, she then hung her head down and started to tear up a little bit, but then she noticed something strange on the ground. It was a rabbit  shaped footprinted, and it headed off to the...Everfree forest, only the darkest and scariest place in all of Equestria.

"Oh Dear" Fluttershy said, "What'll I do now?"

END OF CHAPTER ONE