Fluttershy and Me: Remastered

After about a whole ten minutes of Fluttershy being amazed at my new wings, I finally decided to address when we would have a party for this.  As soon as I said that, Pinkie shot up into the air and in excitement at me just mentioning the word party.

“OH, OH, OH!  I know!  We can have a party tomorrow night!  We can do it right here in Sugarcube Corner, or even better, how about at your place Matt?!”  She turned to me with a sweet little face that signified she was begging to let the party be at my place.

“I wouldn’t wanna have it anywhere else Pinkie,” I responded, and her smile got so big, her mouth practically fell off of her face.  She was clearly happy.

“YEAH BABY!  This is gonna be the best party EVER!  I don’t think I’ve ever had a party for somepony getting wings before!  I need to get planning,” she said, and zoomed off to start planning for the party, at least I assumed that’s what she was doing.  But, instead, she zoomed back in with a pen in her mouth and a notepad in her hoof.  She wanted to write down some ideas.

“Jeez Pinkie, slow down.  It’s just a party.”  After I said that, she spat the pen out of her mouth.

“Just a party?  JUST A PARTY!  Matt, you’ve just grown wings!  This isn’t just another party that I decided to throw together.  No way, I’m gonna make sure you get the best party ever.”  She was bursting with joy.  She reached over for her pen and started writing stuff down that just seemed to make sense to her.  When I tried to get her attention, she didn’t respond.

“We’ve lost her girls.  She’s deep into the party planning stage,” Twilight said.  “Come on, let’s go outside while Pinkie thinks.”  Pinkie was still rapidly writing down ideas on her notepad.  She was such a crazy pony.  I loved that about her.

We went outside and headed back towards my place.  Fluttershy couldn’t take her eyes off of me, or rather, my wings.  I couldn’t blame her though.  They really were beautiful.

“Did it hurt Matthew?” she asked me out of the blue.  I decided to not beat around the bush and just answered her plainly.

“Yeah, it hurt.  It hurt a lot actually,” I said, and I lifted my shirt to show her the bandages that Zecora had wrapped around me after I had passed out.  Fluttershy gasped at the sight of them.  They had gotten red from my blood.  I didn’t know they had gotten that bad.  I would have to change them when we got home.

“Whoa!  That’s a lot of blood.  You sure you’re alright Matt?” Rainbow asked me.

“Yeah, I’m fine.  This blood is just from earlier when I was still bleeding a bit.  It’s dried up by now.  I really don’t care though.  Look at the results,” I said, and I unfolded my wings once again.  I had pretty much mastered that, and it was pretty fun to do.  I couldn’t wait to start flying.  Oh how happy I would be.

When we arrived at my place, we started looking around at places we could put some decorations up, where we could set up a dance floor, and all that stuff.  My place was pretty big, much bigger than my old apartment.  When I first got the place, it wasn’t much.  Now, it feels like home.  I’ve pretty much managed to set up my place just like my old home on Earth.  Hell even my bedroom was the same, except now it had a much bigger bed and all the belongings of Fluttershy.  Most of my figures and other cool stuff that was originally in my bedroom were moved into the living room, which was pretty big.  If I had company, they weren’t like eyesores, but they were still noticeable.  I loved this house.  I loved it so much, that at that moment, I decided we would have the party outside.  Fluttershy and I have quite a large front yard, big enough for the party even.  I didn’t want my stuff getting messed up.

“Hey guys, how about we have the party outside?  It’s supposed to be nice out tomorrow, right Dash?”

“Heck yeah, and if it isn’t, I can make sure it will be,” she responded, reassuring me.  I nodded and looked to the others.  I shrugged in a manner that meant I was asking if they agreed.

“I think that’s a wonderful idea Matthew.  Oh, I could get some of my animal friends to help set up too.  We would already be outside, so it would make everything easier for them too,” Fluttershy said.  I smiled at her, then looked to the others.  They all nodded in agreement.  It was settled.

The next day, Fluttershy and I woke up, had breakfast, and got ready to start preparing for the party.  I first had to go get Pinkie.  She had quite a good amount of ideas for this party.  When we finally decided on a setup and headed back to my place.

The rest of the morning into the afternoon was spent prepping for the party.  Everypony was coming over at about five o’ clock, which gave Pinkie, Fluttershy, and myself a good amount of time to set everything up.  Fluttershy’s animal friends certainly did help a great deal.  At about three, we were done.

“Well, now that we’re done, what do we do for two hours?” I asked the two.

“Well, I’ve gotta head back to Sugarcube Corner to check all the cakes and goodies that I’ll be bringing.  I’ll be back later.  See you guys then,” Pinkie said, and she hopped off.  Fluttershy and I waved goodbye.  Once again, it was just Fluttershy and me.

“Now what?” she asked me.  I shrugged in response.

“No idea.  I guess we just wait for everyone to come.  This is gonna be a great party.  Everything looks awesome.”

“So do you,” she responded.  I was caught off guard by her response, looked at her, and smiled.

“You are the sweetest thing, you know that?” I said, still smiling.  She blushed a little.  I bent over and kissed her on the head.  She looked into my eyes.

“Hey, Matthew, can I ask you something?”

“Of course you can Fluttershy.  What’s up?”  She turned her head, still blushing.  What was on her mind I could only wonder.

“Well, we’ve been in a relationship for quite a long time now, and I was just wondering if…” she paused, starting to get embarrassed by what she was trying to ask me.

“You know that I’m the one who asks to get married right?” I responded and started to chuckle.

“Oh no, that’s not what I mean at all!  I’m not ready for that actually.  But, what I wanted to ask was, well, um…” she stopped again.  What the hell did she want to ask me?

“Is everything alright?” I asked, getting a little concerned now.

“Everything is fine, but, Matthew… are we ever going to…” once again, she stopped.  She was really red at this point, blushing so much.  I thought for a moment of what she meant.  Then it hit me, and my eyes beamed fully open.

“Oh!  You mean…” I started, and stupidly, I moved my head to look down to my… lower area (yeah yeah, go ahead and start laughing now).

“Fluttershy, you know I love you, and I would do anything for you.  It’s just that, well, considering you’re a pony, and I’m a human, I can’t help but feel that that wouldn’t feel right.  I’m sorry, I’m trying to put this delicately.”  She wanted to know if we would ever, you know, do it.

“I understand,” she said, and she hung her head low.  She seemed disappointed.  But then, her head shot back up.  “Oh, but now that I actually think about it, that probably would feel weird wouldn’t it?” she asked.  I couldn’t help but laugh a bit at how quickly she said that.  She started to laugh too.  When the laughter died down, I spoke.

“I’m sorry Fluttershy.  Maybe someday we can just get over it.”

“No, no, it’s fine, actually,” she responded.

I nodded my head and gave her a smile.  We hugged for a moment, and she kissed me on the cheek.  Once we finally got over that little moment we had just had, we decided to go inside and just relax.  No, we did not suddenly wise up and do it... fuckin sickos.  We just relaxed until everypony finally arrived for the party.

Everypony was arriving on time, all except for Rainbow Dash, who showed up ten minutes late.  I could care less, but I was a little confused as to why she was late.  When she arrived, she was shaking a bit, but had a huge smile on her face.

“Hey Dash, what took you so long?” I asked her.  She couldn’t stop shaking or smiling.  Finally, after about 30 seconds, she finally spoke.

“Well, if you really wanna know, I just saved Spitfire, THE Spitfire, from certain death!  It was amazing.  I’m not joking.  I had been practicing in the sky, and then I noticed her as well.  She was amazing, but something made her cramp up, and she started falling.  My instincts kicked in and I zoomed off to save her.”  Rainbow Dash told us how she saved Spitfire and that Spitfire said she owed Rainbow big time for the save.  Come to think of it, that actually would give Dash a second time she saved Spitfire’s life.  I’m referring to episode 16, Sonic Rainboom, when Rainbow Dash saves Rarity and the Wonderbolts by performing a Sonic Rainboom.  I believed every word of Dash’s story.

Shortly after Dash finished her story, we got down to partying.  Man did these ponies know how to party.  Pinkie was a party animal, and the same could be said of Rainbow Dash and Applejack.  Twilight and Rarity had a ton of laughs with each other as they enjoyed the baked goods brought over by Pinkie.  Fluttershy and I shared a dance at one point even.  In the end, we had one hell of a night.

When everyone started to leave, Fluttershy and I said our goodbyes to everypony.  I thanked Pinkie for the awesome party, and she hopped on home.  Rainbow Dash, however, stayed behind.

“Now that they’re all gone, how about we start your training Matt?” Dash asked me.

“Right now?  You do realize it’s 11 o’ clock at night, right?”

“Yes, I’ve made a good note of that, but since we’re all energetic already and are at no time soon going to go to sleep, I figured we might as well start somewhere.  C’mon Matt, just for a while.”  Rainbow really wanted to train me.  I saw no reason to deny her.  I really wasn’t tired, so I figured why not.

“Sure, why not?  What do you think Fluttershy?”

“You two go off and train,” she started, “I’m getting tired, so I’m going to get ready for bed.”  She yawned after that.  She really was tired.

“Alright, I’ll come back at about 12.  Sound good?” I said, and she nodded.

Rainbow Dash and I walked over to the hill that I had arrived to Equestria on to begin.  Luna had already brought the moon out, and it was beautiful.  But, I had to focus on the training.

“Alright Matt, let’s start simple.  Try hovering in place like this.  All ya gotta do is flap your wings.  Nothin to it.”  I tried to flap my wings, but I didn’t hover.  I tried a second time.  Still nothing.  On my third attempt, I put every ounce of strength I had into it.  I jumped up into the air, but I didn’t touch back on the ground.  I had successfully managed to hover.

“Sweet,” I said, sweet and simple.  Dash rolled her eyes and smiled at my overreaction to my own success.

“Alright smart guy.  Try to fly over to me.”

“Oh boy, a challenge,” I responded.  She chuckled a bit.  As I first tried to move, I wobbled a bit and fell to the ground.  I remembered how I had trained Fluttershy to become a better flyer.  I remembered all of those lessons we had.  I thought of everything I told her, but now, I had to apply all that training to myself.

As it all came back to me, I jumped back up, started hovering, and thought of what I taught Fluttershy.  I thought it was by a stroke of luck, but I was actually managing to fly over to Rainbow Dash.  When I reached her, she decided to amp up the challenge.  She flew further away from me, but now, she flew upwards as well.  She went up to a decent height.  I didn’t care.  She was far away that I could actually try to fly at a decent speed to her.  Everything just clicked inside my head, and I was flying straight to her with no trouble at all.  She was amazed at how quickly I was learning everything.

“Wow Matt, you’re doin pretty good for a first lesson.  It seems like you know what to do already.”

“Well, I did train Fluttershy to become a better flyer back on Earth.  I’m just remembering all those lessons I gave her,” I responded.  As I looked down, I realized we were pretty high up.  I lost my control and fell a bit, but I regained control that I was able to decently land on the ground.  Dash couldn’t help but laugh at this.

“Yeah, don’t worry about me Dash, I’m fine, thanks for your concern,” I said to her, laughing now at my own mistakes.  After we stopped laughing, we kept practicing until 12 o’ clock.  I decided to fly home.

When I got home, Fluttershy was actually still up, but she was nestled in our bed reading a book.

“How did it go Matthew?” she asked as I entered our bedroom.

“I’m a natural at this flying stuff Fluttershy.  You should have seen Dash’s face when she realized how good I was,” I responded.  She smiled, put her book down, and yawned.  I went to get myself ready for bed.  After about 15 minutes, Fluttershy and I were sound asleep, hoping we would get to share our dreams once again.