Chapters Chapter 1: The Shy pony gets a vision
Chapter 1: The Shy pony gets a vision
"Oh, angel, aren't you just the cutest thing in a nice, homemade painting of you!" As Fluttershy was trying to rub blue paint off her wings, which she smeared, making her look like a butterfly, she started giving kind comments about the painting that the Cutie Mark Crusaders made for Angel, even though he looked more like a heap of snow with a bit of pink rubber for a nose, black streaks of paint for a mouth, and blue paintballs shot at the "head" for eyes in the painting. Which, somehow, it was.
Angel wasn't very amused, as black paint slowly started to seep into his JUST fluffed up tail, making it look like fluffy a pile of coal.
To this action, the C.M.C. sadly lowered their heads.
Depressingly, Sweetie Belle just said, attempting to wipe white paint out of her mane, "Oh, were sorry if we wasted our time, we just thought..."
"Now, Angel, don't be a little fun spoiler," Fluttershy had a feeling she would be able to calmly persuade Angel to like the painting, no matter how messy it was or how low quality it was, either.
Angel was just standing there, his eyes were starting to give hints of annoyance and almost anger.
Fluttershy had something inside her go 'click' and she got as angry as ever, so she gave angel The Stare.
Suddenly, Angel perked up and started smiling at the painting that the Cutie Mark Crusaders made for him.
Immediatly following Angel's action, the C.M.C.s checked their, as always, "blank flanks".
"Aww, I thought that would work," Whined Scootaloo, rubbing paint off her blank flank.
"We always have hay mending to try out, girls!" Exclamed Applebloom, as excited as ever, and she continued, trying keep paint out of her mouth, "I can bet it will be more fun then painting..."
Sweetie belle just replied to all of it, "I am always up to singing!" She took a deep breath and, "OOOH-"
Everyone immediatly said, and even Angel seemed to have tried to reply, "NO!!!"
"Well, girls-" Applelbloom happily exclaimed "- that hay wont mend it self!"
The C.M.C. then all chanted in unison, "Cutie Mark Crusaiders Hay tenders!" They then speeded out of the tavern saying, "Yaaay!"
Then images flashed through Fluttershy's eyes. "EEEP!!!" The one she was afraid of the most was the one where demon red eyes were staring at her through the everfree forest's darkness. "I have to go see Twilight!"
"Fluttershy, will you please get off me and slow down with this whole thing!" Twilight managed to push the yellow pegasus off her, and then when she tried to jump back on, Twilight just used her magic to strap her to a chair.
"Visions! Everfree forest! EYES!!!!" Fluttershy was acting like she was just forced to read both "Cupcakes" and "The Rainbow Factory" in a dark closet that was locked.
Rainbow Dash only said, "Hey, if I got those visions, I wouldn't be as scared! I would just check out the everfree forest. You know, get it over with."
Fluttershy then began to cry at the thought of not being as brave as the other ponies and still being forced to have such terrifying visions.
Rarity then yelled, "Rainbow Dash! Your not helping the situation with that talk what-so-ev-"
"okthenIwilltellyouthecutiemarkcrusaiderscameandmadeapictureofangelthentheywenttogomendhay-"
Applejack bursted out, "THE FARM!!" And sped out of the library.
"thenwhentheyleftIgotscaryvisionsandthenIcamehereandspiketoldyouthatiwashereterrifiedandyoucameand-"
"Fluttershy, just tell us what those visions were," Twilight interrupted her, and then-
"themostscaryonewas-"
"Fluttershy, I meant with spaces, and breathes!"
"Oh, ok, well the only ne I remember is scary red eyes watching me from the everfree forest."
"I think we will have to wait until tomorrow so I have some research time. Im sorry, but until then, there's nothing I can do, because I don't know what that means. Hopefully, one of my books will know," Twilight sadly apoligized, and almost immediatly after, books came flying off shelves in single file.
"awww," the other of the mane 6 replied in unison.
Except for Fluttershy, who just cried harder.
No matter how many times she did that night in bed, Fluttershy couldn't just stop staring at the everfree forest, feeling like those red eyes were in there somewhere, just watching her, when two red dots flashed inbetween two trees. Then inbetween a bush and a patch of considerably tall grass. Then inbetween the same two trees that the path the ponies use was under.
A sly, black figure slipped out of the forest, it's body looked like it was filled with holes, and its red eyes took more of a silvery green hue in the moon light. It then became a pony, all the holes filled up, but still with that odd green hue-
"A changeling?!" Fluttershy immediatly whispered in a trembling voice, which then became a quivering whimper as the figure headed straight for her little shack.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Fluttershy, apparently in this particular situation, just happened to want to be more kind rather then shy, so she opened the door as slow as ever and the figure came rushing in.
"Nobody saw me?" It said in a sort of scaley voice.
"Wh-who are you, s-s-sir?" Fluttershy asked as she coweringly shut the door, preventing the moonlight from coming in, draping the room in darkness.
She regretted that the moment she heard the little bug buzz of changeling wings.
A green light flashed, then a candle light was lit, and Fluttershy almost screamed to the point where Cloudsdale could've heard her when the scaley, raspy voice said, "Shhhhh!"
Chapter 2: An odd visitor
Chapter 2: An odd visitor
"It's ok, I won't hurt you like those other of my kind!" The candlelight revieled a black, hole filled changeling that had green eyes, instead of the regular blue, and he looked like he walked for miles in a dark forest without food or clean water for days and was mistreated somehow.
Fluttershy was just quivering and she coud barely say, "O-ok..?"
"You could call me #507," The changeling said, then coughed and said something that sounded like a curse in a different language. "Sorry, it's just that it hard speaking in your, language. In fact, beside my old voice, I am fairly young!" The raspy voice was a bit more pony sounding in this little part, and it's scaley quality wasn't there. He just sounded like he had to cough for about, five more minutes.
"Ok," Fluttershy barely managed to whisper. She sounded like all she was going to say, until she could truly trust "#507", was yes and ok. She wasn't one to argue with a shape shifter.
507 just was playing with his hooves like they were puzzle pieces when he looked up from his "game" only to say, "You wouln't mind if I came with you to what ever you were doing tomorrow?"
Then Fluttershy looked both surprised and almost offended at the thought of someone possibly following- more or less, stalking -her through her home then running back to a forest for the rest of the day. She had a new tone in her voice, like a little angry, "Are you saying you followed me?"
"No - well, yes, but-"
"I do NOT appreciate being followed by some stranger who's name is some sort of number. So, no, you can't come. But if you wait here, in what ever form you can that won't seem suspicious, BUT NOT ME, you can tell me whatever you want and I will tell you about the meeting."
"Ok."
They shake on it, and the changeling turns into a filly. "Better?" he managed to say in a squeaky voice.
Fluttershy was happy about the voice and body change. "Better," she agreed in a soothing voice.
They shook hooves again, and filly #507 slept on the couch, and when Fluttershy climbed in bed, she just couldn't sleep.
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"Wow, Fluttershy, you look a whole lot calmer today then yesterday," Twilight commented.
All Fluttershy could think about is the changeling she left at home. "I hope he will be all right..." She murmured.
"What was thait?" A.J., the closest one to her, was the only one who heard.
"What?" Rainbow Dash swooped down from where she was hanging out on a cloud she brought in and flew up to Fluttershy, "What is Apple Jack talking about, Fluttey?"
"Eep!" She looked surprised that somepony heard her. "Nothing!"
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"I never knew that I had to agree to staying a different form a whole day" - groaned #507, as he itched at the floor - "or maybe I could've picked one that had better qualities, like a pegasus, or maybe unicorn."
Knock! Knock! Knock!
His eyes went wide with fear. "Awwww snap."
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"You WHAAAT?!" Rainbow Dash was shocked at what information she (with help from the mane 6, but she took all the glory in the interview) pried out of Fluttey.
Pinkie Pie's mane was more flat then at other times, but then it fluffed back up, as she joyfully exclaimed, "YAY! SHAPESHIFTER PARTY!" She pulled out a popper and confetti went everywhere.
"Pinkie, this is serious. I think we should check- wait, where's Fluttershy?" Twiley and the others were left standing there, distracted by pinkie and her excitment about a changeling party (which, in my opinion, has got to be epic.).
They then realized that Twiley was gone, too.
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"We're going, NOW!" Fluttershy rushed in, took the little filly form of #507 on her back, and rushed out of the tavern towards the everfree forest.
"Wait, where are we going?" The changeling changed back to his original form and was flying over head as they sped into the forest.
Soon enough, they found a cave and stayed in there for the rest of the day.
What they didn't know about was the mess 507 made while he was there, and that Fluttershy flew in so fast that when she stopped, it sent things like papers everywhere. She also forgot to shut the door.
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"What went on here?" The mane 6 had arrived, and Twilight just teleported into the living room.
Rarity's head popped out from the stairway that led up to Flutter's room. "It's as if a window was left open and a breeze came in, but the papers are all closer to the shut window then normal."
"This just doesn't make sense. Why would Fluttershy leave her home in such a mess, UNLESS,"
"Unless what?" Rainbw Dash asked, wanting to go on an adventure like crazy.
"We can't let anybody know she is gone."
"Why? It's not like people are coming to her house every day about animals-" Rarity was starting when a pony walked in.
Vinyl said, "Hey, can I have a pe- woaaaahh, what happened here?"
Rarity then corrected her earlier statement by saying, "This is going to be harder then we thought."
Chapter 3: The quest begins
Chapter 3: The quest begins
As the rain pounded down on the forest, Fluttershy and 507 were making good progress despite the fact they ended up falling every, about, 3 minutes.
"I think we really should fly," complained 507 as they were walking, and he suddenly slipped. He was rubbing mud off his wing when they heard something in the background.
*rustle rustle*
Grrrr.......
"Eeep!" Fluttershy screamed as she flew over head of the forest, only to have her wings get so wet they get weighed down and she falls back down with a crash on 507.
"AUGH!" 507 screamed as his wing tore and he smashed into the ground.
"Eee!!!" Fluttershy was left completely flightless, and, as the odds my have it, she broke both her wings and one of her legs.
"You must've landed in heck of a position to break BOTH of your wings and one of your legs. I mean, that is just bad luck."
"My leg hurts so badly" - she moaned as she cried and continued - "my wings hurt just as bad..."
Despite the fact that they broke their wings and the yellow pegasus broke her leg, they managed a good amount of land in a day.
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((In Pony Ville, at the same time))
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As the rain beat down on pony ville, and Rarity, Twilight, Spike, Rainbow, A.J., Pinke, and all their pets were gathered inside the Library to discuss how they would react to the dissapearance of Fluttershy.
"Do you guys have absolutely any ideas? Because pegasi can't fly in such hard rain." Rainbow dash complained, when she got an idea, and a cleverly stupid one, at that. "Let's send out our pets!"
Everyone else, "LE GASP!!!"
Apple Jack screamed, "Are you INSAINE? Our pets could die!"
Rarity went on about, "But my little Opal just got her fur combed, and she looks so cuute- oh, and what apple jack said."
Pinkie Pie yowled, "Gummy couldn't do such a thing!!!"
Angel was busy trying to get Twilight's attention.
Twilight went bizarre, "Why would I send one of my most beloved- and possibly most likely to be hit by lightning -pet on a mission that could kill him?!"
Angel was getting adgitated, so he pulled on Twi's leg.
"Not now, Angel."
Rainbow Dash complained in defense, "But we could make great pro-"
*loud whistle*
Angel then pointed to the door, and pinted to all the MISSING pets, who WERE right next to her owners, but now missing.
"Nice job, R.D., you gave our pets the idea of a psycho mishin!" Apple Jack yelled.
And beneath all the fighting, all Angel was thinking was, 'Nailed it!' then he sped out, too.
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After a week of traveling, Fluttershy finally wondered, 'Where are we going, exactly?'
As if 507, or Numerality, as Fluttershy called him, could read her thoughts, he immediatly said, "To a land of which no pony have ventured to and returned."
Fluttershy lost it. "WHAAAAAT?!?!"
"There is something about that 'what' that I do not see appealing." The hole covered shape shifter replied to her.
"Y-your taking me t-t-to a place wh-where n pony has returned from which they ventured?!"
He made this face -> . _ . "yyyyyyup."
"And you couldn't of told me when we started?"
"That, I just chose not to do."
"So you tell me when we are about 30 miles deep in a creepy forest?!!"
"I Guess."
"You are possibly the worst future thinker ever." The yellow pegasus moaned, not knowing what to expect.
A green light flashed, and where Numerality once stood, was a pony. A regular pegasus, but one of his wings was broken. "Better?" 507 asked, in a pony voice. He had those puppy eyes, and you could tell he wanted forgiveness.
Fluttershy couldn't help but smile, knowing that now, she was with a pony, and not a bug. "Better," she said in a kind, loving tone.
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((Near the edge of the Everfree forest))
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"I have a baid feeling about theeis," warned Winona, with more of an accent like Apple Jack.
"Yyyooouuu ttteeelll mmmeee," agreed tank, in an elderly voice..
Speeding up came Angel, and he said, in a squeaky voice, "heh, he even talks slow!"
"Hey guysh! You schure this is a good idea?" Gummy stammered, constantly spitting on owlowiscious while he put an effort into talking without teeth.
"Well, I, for one, really do not like the rain," complained Opalescence in a whiney tone, while just glaring at Tank with that look on your face like, 'Oh, how I wish I could just- AUGHFHUOEXUVIRIRUFPRTDCDIXER!!!!'
"Well, we're all here, right? well, then let's-" started angel, when...
"Sssshhhh!" Whooed Owlowiscious, when they heard something. Something from Owl's WING.
"Skweep!"
They all made this face -> . _ . as they stared at the Great Horned Owl's wing, and when he lifted it they saw a tiny little flaming bird, nibbling at a feather he preened off of the owl's wing.
"Duuude," squeaked Angel.
"Woah, thait's Spike's phoenix yah got there, Owlowiscious!" exclaimed Winona.
"This little guy has a name" - he said as he looked around at his fellow pets, then with great pride at the baby phoenix as the rain evaporated when it got close - "and it's Peewee."
"Not much of a name!" said Angel.
"Let's just geit this over with," moaned Winona and she sped off into the forest, with the rest chasing after.
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Chapter 4: Stories of the night / Call of the followers / Animal Tracking System Agency (The A.T.S.A.)
507 and Fluttershy in:
Chapter 4, Part 1: Stories of the night
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As fate may have it, the day Fluttershy's leg heals, they get attacked by a pack of timberwolves (I hate those jerks, if you ask me) and end up getting scratched up horribly.
"Wow, nice fighting, Numerality!" complemented Fluttershy, as she covered her side with a crippled and oddly bent wing.
"Thanks, Butterfly," thanked 507, when FLAISH BAIK!
--Then images flashed through Fluttershy's eyes. "EEEP!!!" The one she was afraid of the most was the one where demon red eyes were staring at her through the everfree forest's darkness. "I have to go see Twilight!"--
/\/\/\/\ *inside my house, where I wrote the book, talking with Fluttershy. these are our exact words* "Wait, wait, are you saying, Fluttershy, that there was something you didn't tell me in our earlier interview?" asked the narrarator ((me)) and as the Fire crackled in my conference room, she nodded and she rubbed her hidden scar under her fur she showed me as she explained something.
"When I had those visions, when I heard Butterfly echoe in my head when I saw those red eyes. I just thought it wasn't important this much until this point in the story." /\/\/\/\
"I remember that same tone of butterfly," said Fluttershy in the slowly growing darker forest when something inside her went click and she said, "From the vision, but what was up with those eyes-"
A red ominous glow was coming from where 507's leaning down face was, and Fluttershy immediatly screamed.
"EEEEEK!"
/\/\/\/\ "So sorry, miss Fluttershy, but when was this again?" I asked, confused on how it was possible to see light in mid day.
"Oh, im sorry, I forgot to tell you when this was!" Fluttershy apoligized to me. "It was an odd day, of which the next week or possibly month or so- you lose track of time in a forest with no company but a bug, you know."
"Oh i know," I agreed.
"HEEY!!!" Screamed 507 from the shower.
"is that-" started fluttershy.
"Yes, just go on."
"It was an odd day of which mid summer the day was exceptionaly short. the beggining of what Celestia later explained to me was a time of which Luna could let out all her evil be shrowding the land in darkness- with her permission- for like a week or so. It starts with short days, then whole night - days."
"I see. is that why you call this-"
"Yes. Can we-"
"Oh, so sorry my readers, and you too Fluttershy, I can get side tracked way too easily. Continue with your story, little pegasus." /\/\/\/\
The hole filled bug looked up, his eyes glowing an ominous and creepy red. "Run," he said.
"Why-"
"JUST RUN!!" He screamed.
Fluttershy ran like there was no tommorow, which there wouldn't have been, if she hadn't ran. Every time it became the time of night, 507 had a curse on him. One that only counted with this sort of time.
Every month of moon, he was turned into a murderous monster that kills anything within a radius of memory. All it takes is a memory of which way you ran and he will track you as if you were the last other living thing on earth.
"FLUTTERSHYYYY!!!!" A demon's voice yowled.
"Yeeee!" Screamed Fluttershy, as she ran deeper to her possible demise, if it weren't for this next tale- two, actually, of the ponies following.
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The mane 6 in:
Chapter 4, Part 2: Call of the followers
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All I remember is The ponies gathering when a flash of light occured, and last thing that happened was the foot of a giant changeling blasting through the floor. It scared the crap out of me.
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Angel as the captain, Winona as the co-leader, Tank as the brawn, peewee as the care package, Owlowiscious as the brains, Opal as the tag along Rarity, and Gummy the only reminder of Pinkie and happiness, the pets are in:
Chapter 4, Part 3: Animal Tracking System Agency (The A.T.S.A.)
"FLUTTERSHYYYY!!!!"
"Wey gotta run!" screamed Winona chasing the sound when she stopped in a clearing.
They all stopped too late. They saw this plowing through the forest at speeds of tank, but it made enough freaking and to cover all of the freaking ponyville with each, about, 20 steps:
A giant changeling walking on two legs with metal blood covered spikes gashing out of its back and dark titanium spikes sticking out of its head with a fire blaring out of it's mouth and breath that even scared timberwolves away.
Angel was just sitting there.
Owlowiscious had to cover Peewee's eyes to prevent him from screaming.
Opal hid in a tree (not smart if you ask me).
Gummy prepped bite Angel.
Tank just hovered right under opal.
Then they made a fatal mistake.
"Opal, what are you doing?!" Whisper yelled Angel in a more serious squeaky tone.
"Well, i am- EEEK!" Yowled opal as she fell from the tree onto Tank, who smashed into the ground with a loud BOOM!
Then Gummy bit Angel in the tail and pulled, making him scream like nuts.
All Owlowiscious could do was Facewing, but he facewinged with the wrong wing.
"SQWEEEEEEPP!!!!"
The demon thing turned to stare at the animals.
"The pegasus can wait," it said with smoke emerging from it's mouth. "I have a buffey just sitting there, calling my name."
"Holy craaaaaaap!" screamed Angel as he was being carried by tank along with opal as they and owl, winona, and gummy with Peewee flew through the air, just barely dodging a giant beam of flame radiating both fire and light.
What happens next is going to be freakin' intense. FREAKING intense.