As I opened my eyes, I was looking up at my bedroom ceiling. I still felt very tired, perhaps because of my visit from Princess Luna. I didn’t want to move from where I was resting, but I couldn’t just stay there all day moping by myself. If I was going to have to get used to Matthew being gone, I would have to start getting used to my old life again. So, I got up, brushed out my messy mane, and headed for the kitchen.

“Angel?” I called out, wondering where my bunny friend was. Usually when I called him, he would always come straight to me. But now, nothing. I figured he must have been outside and didn’t hear me. My cottage just felt so empty. I was almost regretting telling the girls to go home. Yet at the same time, I felt like I really wanted to distance myself from them. I needed them, but I didn’t want them. It felt strange.

I made myself a quick breakfast and then stepped outside after cleaning up my dishes. I took a deep breath of fresh air and smiled to myself. It was a beautiful day, and the bright scenery was doing a great job of lifting my spirits. I then started looking around for Angel, but he still wasn’t around.

“Angel? Where are you?” Still nothing. I was getting a little worried about him. But he was always out and about, getting into all sorts of mischief. I assumed he would be home later. So, I decided to go for a little walk. But as I entered Ponyville, I was regretting that.

As I entered the normally active town, nopony was around. It felt like a ghost town. There was nopony in sight. I started to get scared and anxious at the same time. I decided to go to the library.

“Twilight should probably be up by now. I’ll see what she’s up to,” I told myself. But when I arrived, nopony was there. Twilight and Spike weren’t there. Even Owlicious was gone. It was so strange. I checked every corner of the library. Empty.

“Where is everypony?” I asked myself. I exited the library and headed for Rarity’s. The result was the same as the library. Empty. Rarity, Sweetie Belle, and even Opal were gone. Now I was just scared. I ran out of the Carousel Boutique and looked around frantically.

“Twilight! Rarity! Anypony!” I screamed out. The only response I was given was silence. I ran through the ghost town that Ponyville had become, hoping somepony would show up. But as my fear started to increase, I jumped up and flew into the skies.

“Rainbow Dash!” I called out, hoping she would be flying around. Still, nothing. “Where is everypony?!” I flew straight home, afraid beyond my imagination. But, as I came to the walkway to my cottage, my home seemed so far away. I ran to it, but I never seemed to get any closer. I started to whimper, on the brink of tears.

As the illusion ended, I leapt for the door to my cottage and opened it. I ran inside, slammed the door shut behind me, and started to breathe heavily. I looked out one of my windows to see if anypony was outside. Still nothing. Now I was shivering uncontrollably out of pure fear. Why was I all alone? Where was everypony? With everything that was happening, I felt fear that I had never felt before. And it was made even worse by what I saw when I turned around.

“Oh, there you are Fluttershy. I was wondering where you were,” Matthew said to me, in a totally calm and collective tone. He was sitting on my lounge chair, with a drink in his hand. He put the drink down and smiled at me.

“M-Matthew?!” I said, both in fear and shock.

“Where’ve you been? We were waiting for you.” He was acting like everything was normal. But, how had he gotten here?

“B-But… how?”

“That’s not important. I’m here now,” he responded. I ran up to him, wrapping him tightly in a warm hug. He returned the hug, gently caressing me in his arms. I felt safe with him, and I didn’t want him to leave me.

“Oh Matthew…

“Shh… shh… don’t say anything. I’m here. All we have to do is take care of a few problems.” I looked up to him in confusion. An evil smile spread across his face. He wrapped me in a tight hug, not letting me go. I could barely breathe it was so tight. He pulled me down to the ground, and then everything went black around me.

Now, I was falling. Everything around me was dark and black. I made contact with the ground, or whatever I could consider to be the ground, with a hard and painful thud.

“M-Matthew!” I cried out in pain. I had landed on my right wing the wrong way, and it felt like I had broken it. I looked up to see Matthew standing with that wicked smile on his face. Next to him were my friends, all chained up against an invisible wall. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were struggling, while Pinkie, Rarity, and Twilight were all quivering with fear.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy, everything’s going to be fine,” he said, pulling a gun out from behind his back. I heard the click of the gun as he turned off the safety. "Let’s see. Six rounds, five ponies. Perfect. Now, who’s first?” he said, walking down the line that my friends were in.

“Matthew!” I cried out to him, watching as my friends shook with fear, but said nothing. Even while Rainbow and Applejack were struggling, I could see the fear in their eyes. But, none of them cried out or said anything.

“Hmm, maybe Rarity. I never did like her that much, and she was pretty rude to me when she and the others came to Earth. Nah. Probably not Pinkie or AJ. They never did anything wrong. How about Twilight? It’s her fault that you were sent to Earth in the first place. If that never happened, we wouldn’t be here now. But then there’s Rainbow Dash.” Matthew walked right up to her. “You’ve been a bad pony from what I hear.” He put the gun up to her head.

“MATTHEW!” I cried out. He turned to me with that evil smile on his face, laughing madly.

“Don’t worry! This’ll fix everything!” He pulled the trigger.

Rainbow’s body fell limp, a bloody hole in her skull. Without even saying anything, Matthew backed up and pointed the gun at Rarity. He pulled the trigger, leaving a hole in her skull as well. And then Applejack. And then Pinkie Pie. And finally, Twilight. They were all dead.

“W-Why?!” I whimpered, now crying. Matthew’s only response was more laughter.

“One bullet left!” He pointed the gun at me. “Sweet dreams Fluttershy! I hope you have a fucking great life without me! Shouldn’t be that hard! After all, I did give you up to your friends!” As he finished, I waited for whatever end there was to this nightmare to come. I heard the gun being shot, but it wasn’t at me. I looked up to see that Matthew had shot himself.

“NOOOOOOOOO!!!”

I shot up in bed, panting heavily, with sweat flowing down my face and body. I was shaking madly, unable to control myself. I hugged myself in fear, whimpering to myself. I started to cry, rocking myself back and forth in bed. Soon enough, I fell back into bed, but I didn’t stop crying. But even though the nightmare was over, I still felt as if it had all happened. It was just so real and terrifying. Whereas I normally would love waking up in Matthew’s arms, all I wanted now was to get him out of my mind. I just wanted all the pain to go away. I just wanted it all to end…

“No… You’re not going to end it… You told Matthew to keep going, and so will you. It was just a dream. A terrible, terrible dream. It wasn’t real. Matthew would never do any of that. He loves you, and you know it. You just need to get it all out of your head and go back to sleep…” As I told myself all this, I noticed that it was still the middle of the night. I closed my eyes slowly, still crying and whimpering. As I fell asleep again, all thoughts of that awful nightmare escaped my mind, and I couldn’t have been more thankful for that.

Author's Notes:

Jesus that was dark. Yet for some reason, I always seem to get a kick out of writing dark things like this. Is that a bad thing?

So yeah, I guess Fluttershy's not doin to good. Just so everyone knows, this all happened on the same night that Luna visited her dreams again. Too bad she didn't stick around a bit longer huh? Let's just hope that Fluttershy doesn't go suicidal...