Before you read this chapter, it's important that you go back to the last chapter and read the last couple paragraphs. Mostly where Fluttershy gets back home. I updated it, and the rest of the story might not make sense if you don't go back and read it. And again, if there's something wrong, please tell me and I will go back and fix it. And as always, thanks for reading. I'll have the next chapter up faster then this one.

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Rarity was doing what she usually does. Working on dresses. She had many assortments of many colored fabric, pin cushions, measuring tape,etc, flying across the room in a somewhat of an organized manner.

"This goes...here...and over here...oh, can't forget this spot. Ah. Perfect."

She had got done cutting out fabric and went to the sewing machine to see the pieces together.

"Careful Rarity you don't want to mess this up."

She was slowly moving the fabric up as it was sown together when-

"Yo Rarity!" called Rainbow Dash through the window, and made Rarity push her fabric up to fast and rip it in half.

"Rainbow Dash!"

"Sup."

"You made me ruin this." "Sorry, but that's not important."

"What could be so important that you had to disturb me while I'm making dresses?"

"Well one: You're always making clothes. And two: I think Fluttershy has a, you-know-what."

"Rarity raised an eyebrow. "You-know-what?" Rainbow Dash sighed.

"A crush on a certain pony.

"Oooooh a crush on someone?" "Any pony would be lucky to date Fluttershy. She is very beautiful, she just doesn't know it." "And doesn't use it to her advantage like you." she said with a sly smile. "Anyways, have you seen him, what does he look like?"

Well, he's a dark-gray pegasus, almost a black color, and he has red eyes." "HIM!?" Rainbows ears rang a bit.

"I take it you've met him."

"Met him? He was so rude to me. For all the people to fall for, it has to be someone like him. How did they even meet? Why were they even talking to each other? He wasn't mean to her was she?"

"Whoa, calm down Rarity. I'm pretty sure there was a good reason."

"A good reason? What could explain her attraction towards him? She can barely talk to a regular pony without getting scared. But she talks to this guy."

"I don't think they were actually talking."

"Wait, how did you find this out anyways?"

"Well I was flying overhead and I noticed them standing at her door."

"Spying, weren't you?" Rainbow hung her head while smiling cheekily. "Yeah, you could say that."

"You shouldn't spy on Fluttershy." "I know, but aren't you glad I told you?"

"I guess." "But you know Fluttershy is too shy to talk to guys." "But there' was Discord." "Seriously? Don't compare Discord to any "normal" pony." "Yeah you're right." "Well, if she's finally found someone, then we can't let her lose him.

She could use a boyfriend." "I don't know, I don't like the idea of someone taking advantage of her kindness and timidity." "Well if that happens, we could just cut things off."

"Yeah I guess you're right." Rarity stood with a blank stare. "But...this is Fluttershy. "I'm still not sure we can pull it off."

"With the way they were staring at each other, she's totally into him! She just needs some encouragement.

"Still unsure?"

"Kinda."

"Then we should go talk to Fluttershy herself." "I don't think she'll want to talk about her crush."

"Then we'll make her talk." "I don't know about making her talk, but maybe she'll confess willingly."

"Well enough talking, let's get over there." "Actually, let's wait tilltonightor so. Im much too busy to leave right now." "Uuuuugh!" Fine. I'll be backat 8:00. And with that, she flew out of the house.

Princess Luna was in her dark room with it only being dimly lit by a candle. She was pacing back and forth like she was thinking about something. Light shined through the door as her older sister opened it and came through.

"Hello Luna. I just wanted to check up on you and..."

Luna seemed to not hear her, for she continued pacing back and forth. Celestia noticed this and used her magic horn to light up the room. This caught Luna's attention and she stopped pacing to shield her eyes.

"Oh sister, I didn't notice you there." she said. "

Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing, I was just thinking about some things."

"Anything you want to talk about?" "No, I'm fine." she said while walking out of her room." "Celestia was looking concerned and followed her. "Luna are you sure you're fine? You've been in your room all the time until its time to raise the moon."

"Well, I've just been having an ominous feeling."

"Ominous?" "It's hard to say, i can't exactly point out what it is.

It's like, I feel uneasy for some reason."

"You're not alone, I've been feeling these strange surges of energy in the air, lots of them in fact." "What do you think it could be?"

"I don't know, but we need to be on the lookout." I actually got a report from a guard the other day."

"What kind of report?"

"I thought you would find this suspicious, but there have been numerous sightings of monsters that belong in the Everfree Forest, outside of the forest and roaming the local woods of Ponyville, and other surrounding areas." "But I don't know why they've been leaving the forest."

"Somethings been driving them out, knowing monsters like the cockatrice and manticores don't normally leave there homes, being extremely territorial at that, even dragons that live there have been seen leaving the forest and never coming back."

"To make a dragon leave its home, thats just unheard of, except the I told Twilight to make go away. Once they choose a home, they usually stay there for awhile."

"And thats not all, there have been signs of struggle at the scenes." "She used her magic to transport a picture from her room in front of her face, then in front of Celestias.

"This really caught my attention." she said as Celestia studied the picture."

"She was a little shocked too when she saw it. It was hundreds of dead timberwolves in a huge clearing in the forestsome of them still intact."

"Oh my, who could've done this?" "It must have been someone very strong to take out that many."

"Our investigation squad discovered magic essence still on the surrounding trees when the guards were checking the area."

"Claw marks, holes and cracks in the ground, it must have been a serious struggle."

"But what are timberwolves doing out of Everfree?" They don't leave from there unless something really made them upset."

"We're still not for sure." "Someone made them angry

"Seems suspicious, I'll send Twilight and the others to investigate tomorrow."

"I hope they'll be alright. Something strange is definitely going on here."

"Don't worry, I have much faith in my student."

Celestia was about to say something else until they heard yelling.

"Come on don't run! He just wants to play with you!"

A soldier came running out of the doors while being chased by a manticore.

The soldier ran past the two sisters as the manticore continued running as if about to attack them. Right before it reached them, Celestia used her magic to teleport the manticore back to the Everfree Forest.

"AHAHAHAHAHA! Oh! That was so hilarious AHAHAHA!"

laughed Discord as he floated back into the air while clutching his stomach.

"And you said you saw a great change in him," said Luna. Celestia developed a guilty look. When Discord saw the two angry sisters, his smile vanished. "Discord!" they both yelled.

"Uh oh." said Discord and darted for the door, but Celestia caught him with her magic and brought him towards her.

"Discord, what do you think you're doing?" asked Celestia in a serious tone.

"I was just introducing him to my pet manticore." "That manticore wasn't tamed at all," said Luna.

"So." he said while sticking his tongue out at her.

Luna growled and it made him a bit frightened. "Discord, you can't keep pulling tricks on ponies around the castle. Someone could get hurt."

"But I'm always so boooored, and you're always working. Besides, he seems fine to me."

They both looked back at the soldier still shaking by the doorway and back at Discord.

"Besides, that's not me anymore. It's all in good fun." "Life isn't a joke Discord. I'm starting to think that you haven't even been truly reformed." stated Luna.

"What? Little old me?" "Don't play innocent you little rat."

"Luna!"

"What? He hasn't done one thing to prove that he's good now. He's done nothing but pull pranks. Why can't you take anything seriously?"

"What do I get out of being serious my dearest Luna? "Like you haven't pulled a prank or too in your life."

"Well we can't all act like we don't responsibilities."

"Luna calm down."

"Why? You let him get away with everything! It would've been better if we left him in stone."

"Luna, that's a bit harsh." He's still trying to adjust." "Whatever. He's probably been using this as an excuse to play pranks and spread chaos again!"

"I think you need to cool down a bit," said Discord while snapping his fingers to make a bucket of water pour over her.

"AHAHAHAHA! "

This set Luna off as she growled and tackled him to the floor and her eyes turned a pure white. "Now you've done it, I should beat you senseless myself!"

"I'm sorry, did I touch a nerve? AHAHAAA!"

"You two! Quit it!" said Celestia as she pulled the two apart, but Luna was still steaming mad.

"Discord you need to stop your misdeeds."

"I'm sorry "Princess", it's not easy being a chaos bringer and putting it to "good" use."

"I won't hesitate to have you turned you back to stone."

"Oh really?" Celestia gave him a disapproving look which made him worried. "Okay okay, I'll "try" to act better." "No, you will." said Luna sternly.

"Whatever, I'm going to take a nap. All that laughing made me tired." said Discord as he let out a small chuckle and teleported away.

Celestia let out a small sigh. "Don't let him stress you sister. You have much more important duties then worrying about him."

"I know, but if something happens, I wanna know I can trust Discord to be a great ally."

"I know but, you let him off too easy sometimes."

"What's making you cut him so much so slack?"

"He's been encased in stone for centuries. I remember a certain someone who was a little ticked for being locked away too."

Luna looked away and blushed in embarrassment. "If he's still acting up, then it's probably cause he's been locked up for some time. He's still trying to adjust to the modern world." He might've been reformed to the point where he's stopped spreading chaos, but even I didn't expect him to be exactly"nice" he still has a slight hatred for the world."

"Besides, you know the way he used to be before we had to seal him away."

"I know, I just wish he would change a little."

"And he has." she added, hoping to make her feel a little better. He might pull a few pranks here and there, but he's not completely evil anymore."

"I know he plays around all the time, but try not to get on to him so much."

"He poured water on me." she said while pointing at her still damp mane. "Yes, that was a bit much."

"Whatever." she said. Celestia nuzzled against her sister's face. If it makes you feel better, I'll go talk to him.

Come on, let's go dry you off." she said with a giggle. Luna eventually smiled too and followed her sister back into a room.

Ever since Fluttershy got back to her house, she's done nothing but think about that pony that she had met in the forest while trying to take a nap. She was tired, but couldn't get the black stallion she had met yesterday out of her head. She sighed and rolled over to where the right side of her body loosely hung over her bed. She dragged her hoof lazily across the floor with a sad look on her face.

"Why do I feel so empty?" she asked herself. "I got Angel back, but why do I still feel like in missing something."

While she laid there pondering the thought, she heard a knock on her door.

"Oh my, who could that be?" she wondered while going downstairs to open the door. When she opened the door and saw RD and Rarity standing in front of her, it brightened her mood a little.

"Hi Fluttershy!" said Rarity.

"Hi girls, what brings you two here?"

"We were just checking on you. You seemed pretty sad from yesterday."

"Yes I was, but I found Angel. So I'm good now." "Mind If we come in?"

"Not at all, please," she said while opening the door up more, giving them enough room to walk in.

"So what have you been up to." asked Rainbow while calmly floating in the air above them.

"Oh nothing really, just hanging around the house."

"Well you shouldn't be hanging around the house all day." Fluttershy went over to her couch and laid down.

"Fluttershy sweetie, are you alright, you seem a little down today, did something happen?"

"No, I'm fine, really. Just a little exhausted." "Rarity and RD exchanged glances while RD floated to the ground. "Something's not right." said RD.

"What do you mean?"

"You've never been depressed for no reason." "I'm not depressed." "Well if you are you're not hiding it very well."

She just looked down and sighed again. "You're not alright. You should come back to town with us and grab a bite to eat, do some shopping." "We should get the other girls too. It's a little short notice, but we could make it work."

"I don't know, I don't do well around crowds."

"C'mon Fluttershy, whatever's wrong with you, a night out in Ponyville might help. said RD. "It'll be fun."

Fluttershy thought for a moment. "Well, I guess I could go out for a bit, I

wouldn't want to disappoint you."

"Don't be like that Fluttershy, you'll have a good time."

Fluttershy managed to usher in a smile. "Okay." "Great!" Let's go get the other girls." "I'll be back in a bit Angel." Fluttershy followed them out the door, but still felt lonely for some reason and was hoping that talking with the girls would get her mind off things and make the weird feeling go away.

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