The Courage of Fluttershy

After a short plane ride – PONY AIRLINES – Fluttershy and her friend Spike – a dragon – stood at the bottom of K2, a really tall mountain that rose right into the clouds making it difficult to see the summit. Hopefully, Fluttershy thought, this will not affect my view once I reach the top. I want to see the entire world just Jesus did when the devil tempested. She was going to prove to Ponyville that she could achieve anything and that she was not just a shy and ignorant pony.

"Are you sure you really want to do this," said Spike curiously – he did not know what Fluttershy's reaction would be as she could become really angry very suddenly for no reason at all. "It looks really dangerous."

"Look, I have come here to prove those ponies wrong – I am not a coward – by climbing this mountain. This would give me courage to stand up against them all – including Rainbow Dash – that is the most prideful pony there ever was. Pride destroys people – so I am not going to be boastful once I have completed this taste – do you understand me?" said Fluttershy. She looks convinced in her ways so Spike decided not to argue against her again. It is better to go with her than argue against her and lose.

"Alright," said Spike curiously, "but let us rest first. It is nearly dark and I do not want to start climbing this mountain tonight – maybe another day if it can be helped." Twilight Sparkle nodded in agreement.

So they found an old house near the bottom of the mountain. The man was kind to let them stay there for free – It had started hail storming, so if he did not let them in they would have died – he had a guilty conscience. He brought them mugs of hot chocolate as they crowded around the fire place which warmed them up. The drink strengthened them for the next day – it was going be dangerous and they knew they would need a lot of strength to get through the next day.

"So," said the old man, "you are planning to climb this deadly mountain. You know it has claimed over nine thousand lives. I have counted every one of them and each one was not nice."

"What is your point with this mindless blabbering? This is really annoying – I want to climb the mountain now!" said Fluttershy. "If I can climb this mountain I will have achieved my goal of proving Rainbow Dash wrong – that I can achieve anything – and will be rewarded by Princess Celestia – oh that would be truly awesome!" The old man face-palmed himself and then looked at her worryingly.

"I fear you will die on this journey. This will not end kindly and I will tell you in heaven that I warned you so! I will give you this simple advice – do not climb this mountain and turn back or you will die if you ignore my advice! This is the most dangerous mountain in the world – many people have died trying to climb it – so I beg you to not climb it or you will gain the same fate as those many hundreds of people that have died climbing this mountain!" said the world man wonderingly. Suddenly, Fluttershy turned red, indicated that she was really annoyed at the comment the man had said.

"I think you should listen to this man," said Spike – which made things even worse. Even her friend was turning against her. She had enough and wanted to climb the mountain now!

"It is people like you that cause people like me to give up on our dreams!" demanded Fluttershy! "I am going to ignore you and climb this mountain right now just to prove you and everyone else wrong! I am going to show them that I can do this and that I am not some shy little pony."

"If it is your death wish, be my guest," said the old man. "Do not come back with absent appendages and complaining – I will tell you 'told you so' and everyone else will laugh at you – including Rainbow Dash. I bet he would love to see you fail this quest of yours – the smile on his face will be great – could you live with yourself if this happened. Escape the embarrassment by not climbing this mountain."

Suddenly Spike said, "Look, why do not we stay here until the snow storm is gone, and then we can start the journey. It will be a lot safer that way." The other pony nodded in agreement.

"Alright," said Fluttershy. "We will stay here for only one day. I will be leaving first thing tomorrow – even if you are not prepared." And so the old man allowed them to sleep there that night – the snow storm was still bad and so he would feel really guilty if he kicked the out.

That night, Fluttershy had a nightmare. She was back in Ponyville and all the ponies were staring at her with evil eyes – as if they were demon processed. Princess Celestia went up to her and started to laugh really evilly. "You failed us! You are a disgrace!" she laughed. "We will forever laugh at you to make you feel the shame!"

"See, did not I say you could not achieve you dream," Rainbow Dash said as he approached poor little Fluttershy. "I bet I could have climbed that mountain with my eyes closed!"

"Oh Rainbow Dash, you are very pretty," said Twilight Sparkle, smiling at him. This made Fluttershy even more annoyed.

"Oh, and I love you too," said Rainbow Dash. "Unlike Fluttershy who left you to climb some stupid mountain – how could you even call her a friend – an enemy more like it?"

"That serves her right for insulting me and my friend Jesus," said Charity.

Applejack said, "I hope she is a cripple for the rest of her life. She knew the dangers of climbing that mountain so now she better while learn about the consequence."

Even Spike looked really disappointed. "I warned you not to climb that mountain but you would not listen. Now you nearly got yourself killed. You are truly an embarrassment. I do not want to be friends with you anymore. Good bye."

Then Princess Celestia said, "I hereby banish you from these lands. If you come back we will get rid of you on sight – do you understand?" And everyone cheered. All of this was getting to Fluttershy that she screamed at the top of her voice!

"I CANNOT TAKE IT ANY LONGER!" she screamed aloud as she woke up.

Spike stood up – wide awake – to look at Fluttershy. His stare looked right into Fluttershy which made her very uncomfortable. He shocked his head. "What was all that screaming about," he said, "you will wake the old man up. Go back to bed since you will need your sleep for tomorrow."

"Alright, I will go back to sleep. I know how important tomorrow is and why I need a good enough amount of sleep," Fluttershy replied and so she went back to sleep. She did not get any nightmares, thanks to God. They work up early and the old man served them a meal to eat before they started their journey up the mountain. And so they ate their breakfast as quick as they could – Fluttershy wanted to start climbing the mountain as soon as they could – and the old man went up to them ominously.

"Is there anything I can do to convince you not to climb this mountain," he asked.

"No," Fluttershy said. "Now get out of my way. I do not want anything to get in my way to the summit - that includes you."

"Then I will let you go on your way. There is nothing I can do to stop you going to your deaths. The blood is on my hand," the old man quoted the bible.

And so they started their journey from the first camp, where the old man's hut was, across the valley of salience walking, on the right side of the valley, – where they were able to first see the summit - towards the face of Lhotse, walking on the right side of the valley, where another camp was set up. By now it was nearly dark, so they decided to call it a day. The next day they started to climb the face of Lhotse where after a few hundred they came across another camp supplying oxygen. From there, they need to climb up toward anther where they would stay the night there. Between the two camps there was to two more problems to get past. The first one is a massive black rock, and another one was a layer of marble. They were able to get past this using rope. They soon came to the fourth camp where they stayed there for night – they had taken an entire day to get that fare.

That night Fluttershy had another nightmare. Spike and her were climbing the mountain, when suddenly, Spike tripped over a rock, and fall down towards his death. She started worry that she would get in trouble – she had brought death upon her friend –she did not want to suffer the shame of going back to Ponyville as a failure, especially if her friend died for her.

Suddenly, she woke up. She started to cry, which woke of Spike – so as a friend he started to contort her. "Flutter, everything will be okay," he said.

The next day they started to climb again. After an hour they got to a terrace where they were able to see the peaks at the south summit where they were heading and the east summit – their main goal. From there, they had to get over a set of rocks, which they used a rope to do so. They also had to dodge avalanches. They soon came across a small dome which was the south summit. Then they head south-east up a traverse, where they came across a bottleneck cliff, which they needed climbing equipment to climb. After having to climb over a section rocky rock, they came to the summit.

"This is amazing," said Fluttershy.

"Well done, you did it," said Spike.

"I think I have gained the courage to know what I want to do with my life. I want to help other people live good and healthy lives," replied Fluttershy.

"I am glad you realize this now," said Spike. "If it was not for Jesus, I do not think we would have made it her."

"It is sad that my other friends did not come with me. It would have been great for them to see me do this thing," said Fluttershy.

"Yeah," said Spike. "I bet they will be Jesus."

"I agree with you there. By doing this, I have proven them wrong," said Fluttershy.

"Happy is the man that allows wisdom into their life, and the man that understands many complex things," said Spike.

"I am glad you have shared me with some great wisdom," said Fluttershy.

"That is from the Bible. God is wise. You should think about following our ways by being becoming a Christian," said Spike.

"Yes, I will think about that," she said. And so they camped there for the night, and after witnessing the sun rise, they climbed down the mountain. Fluttershy was glad she had managed to climb that mountain. She hoped to climb Mount Everest one day in the future.

She walked up to the old man and laughed at him. "Now you can tell me 'told you so' since I have climbed that mountain. I have done something that no one thought I could. I am going to post the photo of me on the summit onto my blog. My readers are going to be very excited about that!" Fluttershy said, before leaving the old man before he could reply.

"Time to go home," Spike said happily.

Author's note/ I have finished proofreading through this fanfic, so hopefully it will not be reported again. I also plan to finish this so that there is a proper ending. I will also talk to my cousin to see if he can proofread his fanfics so that they can return to this site as well.