War in Peace

A winged butter cream-colored pony flew slowly toward a large tree, the mare had a nervous look about her... as if she was afraid something was going to jump out at her any second now and scare her back to her home. The tree that she was flying toward looked like a normal tree, except for the windows, door, and balcony attached to it. When she finally got to the door of the tree the mare cautiously put a hoof up to knock on the door, everything about her posture said she was nervous or afraid to be there. in fact, she didn't know what her friend's reaction would be when she told her what she came to tell her.

after taking a few seconds to muster up what little courage she had, she softly knocked on the door, waiting a few seconds before knocking again. After standing outside the door for a few minutes the door opened.

"yeah yeah... all right Twiligh, yeesh... don't get your tail in a twist I'm going to get the supplies now..." a small purple dragon said, his head was turned since he hadn't registered the presense of the yellow mare yet. He was about to leave when he jumped, realizing that there was somepony standing in front of him.

"Oh... Fluttershy... I had no idea you were out here... I'm heading to the store to get more paper and ink, you know how Twilight goes through so much in just a day." he grumbled and tossed a glance back at the interior of the room where a purple-coated mare with a horn on her laid with her back to them. The horn on her head was glowing a soft purple color as a book hovered in front of her, encased in the same purple aura.

Fluttershy gave a giggle before talking to spike in a voice that sounded as fragile as the mare looked.

"it's okay... May I come in...? I have something I want to talk to twilight about" she asked with a sweet smile.

"I don't see why not, Twilight's been pouring over those books for the past two days... saying something about 'dream magic'... it's started to weird me out. maybe you can bring her back to the world of reality and get her to at least spend some time away from those books." Spike replied in a nonchalant tone.

Once the greetings were out of the way Fluttershy tentatively took a step into the house, as if worrying that the floor was going to burst into flames when she touched it. After taking a deep breath and exhaling it she almost silently walked up to her friend. Fluttershy smiled as she realized her friend was so absorbed by what the book was telling her that she hadn't even the mare walk up to her. Fluttershy gently tapped Twilight on the shoulder and it seemed to bring the purple unicorn out of her trance, it took a second or two but Twilight finally registered Fluttershy's presence.

"Oh! Fluttershy... I had no idea you were coming over, I've been studying up on the meaning of dreams because I asked luna about a dream I had... and she told me that it was one that I would have to find out on my own." Twilight's look had changed to one of confusion as she saw her friend's gaze drop to her own hooves and she started scraping one of them on the floor.

"...Fluttershy...? what's wrong?" Twilight asked with obvious concern, knowing that out of all her friends, Fluttershy was her most troubled because of how painfully shy she was and how hard it was for her to get used to new things.

Fluttershy had to take several deep breaths before she could even begin to tell her friend why she was there.

"well..." She began, "...I had a dream that seemed so real... that I thought I wouldn't wake up in my own house..."