A Dark Shade of the Past

by InfinityBreach

First published 3rd of April, 2012

You can't always judge a book by its cover. When you meet someone who controls darkness though...

A being named Eclipsal Shade arrives in Equestria after a horrible storm. He finds himself in the care of Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, with no memories prior to the storm. So he departs on a search to find his memories with the Mane 6, but pretty soon they find just how deep of a hole Eclipsal's old life had brought upon him. At the very end of the day, it will leave everypony wondering: What is darkness?

Set after Discord's reformation, but before Twilight becomes an Alicorn.

Cover Image by my friend, Imsokyo: http://imsokyo.deviantart.com/ http://www.livestream.com/ahappypichu

The Eclipse

Twilight walked back towards the library with a smile on her face, just returning from Canterlot after visiting her parents, with ten new books in tow behind her.

‘I can’t wait to get home and have Spike organize these for me to read later!’ she thought to herself happily.

The streets of Ponyville were quite peaceful, foals were playing, shops were open, and Twilight couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride for being one of those destined to keep it this way. So far, Twilight and her friends had succeeded in saving the town from the likes of Nightmare Moon and Discord, despite being against all odds.

With the Elements of Harmony on their side, there was no way they could lose against any type of evil. As long as their friendship was strong, nothing could ever happen. Twilight smiled to herself again, with these thoughts in mind as she finally made it to her library, her home.

As soon as Twilight entered her house, she was practically ambushed by Spike. “Twilight, Twilight! The Princess sent you a letter! You just have to read it!” he said in haste.

“Fine, Ill read it while you put up my books. Be sure to organize them in the section ‘To read later’.” she stated. Spike shuffled off with her bag of books, mumbling to himself, as Twilight opened the scroll that was labeled to her and Spike. It read:

Dear Twilight and Spike, my faithful student and her assistant,

I would like to have you and your friends to come and witness Equestria’s first eclipse since Luna has been freed from the Nightmare in her. It will be taking place at 3 o'clock this Saturday, in Canterlot. We had an annual eclipse every 10 years; until I had to seal away Luna, you see, it requires two alicorns to activate it, just as how the Elements of Harmony only work when you and your friends are together. I know Luna would appreciate it if you, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy came and stayed to watch our eclipse. Even though Luna has been quite content with life as it is, I am sure it would over joy her to see somepony there she knows.

Your mentor,

Princess Celestia

After Twilight finished the last line of the letter, she giggled in joy, “Wow, this sounds like an amazing thing to go and do with everypony! Spike, be sure to mail them each a letter about it, while I go and prepare for the first ever eclipse I have ever seen in my life!” she squee’d to herself after that, trotting off to her room to get her belongings organized.

Fluttershy was watering her garden, making sure to get the plants perfect for when it was time to harvest them for the animals. Carefully setting down the watering pot, she looked at the sky, noticing it had gotten darker.

The sun was still out, and right in the middle of the sky, yet it still felt dark to her. ‘Maybe I should bring in the animals soon....’ she thought to herself.

She looked towards the sky some more, trying to discern any reason towards the random darkness, when all of a sudden there was a loud popping noise that came from right behind her. “Eep!” she screamed, flying into a nearby bush, only to see a floating letter from where she once was.

After regaining her composure, she trotted over to where the letter was, grabbing it in her mouth and reading it. ‘An invitation to see an eclipse?’ she thought to herself. She thought back, trying to remember what an eclipse was. Then she remembered hearing about them as a filly.

She always thought it was a mare’s tale... but then again Nightmare Moon was thought to be a mare’s tale too. She remembered the stories her parents always read to her, describing it as the most beautiful thing anypony could ever see.

She focused back in on the note, amazed and wondrous at how this eclipse would look like. There was one thing she knew for sure though; she is definitely going.

-----------The day of the eclipse-----------

Twilight and her friends were already in Canterlot, ready for one of the most monumental day in Equestria, the return of the eclipse.

Everypony was at the Canterlot Viewing Platform, watching the sky, as the Moon and the Sun were readying to intertwine.

“This is going to be 200% cool!” Rainbow Dash shouted with glee. Applejack nodded her head, agreeing with Rainbow.

“Why, I do believe this will be the most beautiful sky the kingdom has ever seen, knowing the princesses’ handiwork.” Rarity chanted.

Pinkie Pie was jumping everywhere blowing her noisemaker, and throwing confetti everywhere, yelling, and singing, doing her own thing. Lastly, Fluttershy was just watching in awe.

Twilight was watching as the sky started to change. With Spike on top of her back, they watched with their 5 friends, as the blue sky started to fade into a deep purple, the bright sun and dark moon mixed to make a shining blackness.

It was so dark that it was bright, and the ponies’ eyes were drawn to it, yet it was so dark, nopony could see the ground around them, only the amazing sky. With a mixture of the night sky’s speckled stars, and the day time’s pure white clouds, it created one masterful moment, in which everything went silent for a whole minute, everypony being entranced by this astonishing sight.

In the last few seconds of the eclipse, something flew in front of the eclipse itself, a bright blue streak of color bursting through the darkness, and a few more seconds later, crashing into the royal castle’s grounds.

Twilight blinked as it hit, confusion crossing her face. “Is this part of the eclipse?”

Spike burped, a letter shooting out of his mouth. Twilight grabbed it and read out loud: “‘Dear Twilight Sparkle, darkness has come to Equestria, and I need you to-’... It doesn't say anything else..” Twilight finished, whispering the last part.

“We need to get to the castle now!” Applejack yelled. Then the seven friends nodded in agreement, and ran down the road towards the castle, worried that something terrible must of happened.

They entered the castle’s throne room, to see all the guards knocked out, and the pillars thrown and destroyed across the room. Right in the middle of the thrones of Luna and Celestia, stood one lone pony.

It’s black hair spiked randomly in multiple directions, it’s eyes a deep blue, and its fur being a deep dark grey. It’s black wings with white tips erupted from a dark blue cloak that it had been wearing, with its hood over most of its head, and the cloak’s sleeves going down it’s front hooves. It’s tail flicked behind it, as jet black and spiky as it’s hair.

“Who are you and what have you done with the princesses?!” yelled Rainbow Dash. The pony stared back with a blank look, and said, “The princesses?”

“So you’re a stallion, aintcha? Tell us who you are, and where the princesses are or else you will be in trouble.” Applejack threatened.

“My name is....” The pony grew quiet for a second. “My name is Shaded Darkness. Master of all Darkness in Equestria. Also you have no reason to threaten me, I have done nothing with these ‘princesses’ you claim to know.” he finished.

“Well obviously you’re a liar! Let’s teach him a lesson girls!” Rainbow screamed charging at him. Shaded got into a defensive position as the rest of the ponies ran towards him.

Author's Notes:

(A/N) This is my first story on this profile, but this is currently my third FanFic. Just let loose whatever you want to say in the reviews, everypony. But please, no flames. Enjoy! Also Im not exaclty 'used' to posting on this site so sorry if the layout is... funky. Thanks for reading! -brohoof- :3
EXTREME EDIT: The first few chapters I made of this are horribly done. Thanks to Alex Barkhorn, Chapter 5 and onward are better then this... blech. So please read up until then, then decide if you want do or don't like this story.
Extra Edit: I went and redid the first few chapters so that more people would get a better intro for the story.

Reign of Darkness

Rainbow Dash was the first to hit him due to the amount of speed she had. Shaded forced his large wings to cover his front as Rainbow rammed full speed into him. As fast as Rainbow had hit him ended up being how fast she got thrown back.

Twilight quickly used her magic to catch Rainbow before she hit the wall, gently putting her down, as Applejack decided to launch an offensive towards Shaded. He quickly moved out of the way, as though he had teleported, when Applejack missed her buck towards him.

Twilight then looked around for this pony, as he appeared to be nowhere on the floor of the throne room. She slowly walked forwards, her hoofsteps being heard over the eerie silence of the room.

She glanced at Fluttershy after hearing her 'eep' and followed her terrified eyesight to the top of the throne room. On one of the beams was the mysterious pony they had been fighting, his eyes just looking down towards them.

When Shaded realized that one of them had seen him, he jumped down, right in between Luna and Celestia's thrones. "Listen, ponies, I don't want to fight you or hurt you. I am only here to help control this world." Shaded said in a monotone voice.

"Control this world? Like we would ever let you do that!" Spike yelled from atop Twilight. "Spike, be quiet, get off my back and go outside. I don't want you hurt." Twilight said in a sisterly tone. Spike jumped off of Twilight and grumbled as he walked out what was left of the door.

After seeing that Spike had left, Twilight then turned to Shaded, and said, "Well it looks like its time to get serious, right girls?" The other girls then nodded, walking to be next to Twilight. "Our friendship will be sure to defeat you." they all said at once.

Shaded watched as they all started glowing, each one floating into the air as a different necklace was seemingly placed on all of them. As Twilight looked up, she wasn't wearing a necklace like the others but instead a crown. Shaded took a few steps back, saying, "The elements... it can't be..." Shaded stared at them in shock, as a light started to emerge from Twilight's eyes.

As soon as the magic had fully taken over Twilight's eyes, a beam of pure light went straight at Shaded. He wasn't fast enough to move out of the way, and one of his wings got hit by the light.

When the glow that came from the girls using the Elements of Harmony wore off, Twilight looked at the direction of Shaded.

She gasped at what she saw, and as soon as she did, the other girls looked too. Pinkie Pie's hair straightened itself, as she stared in shock at Shaded.

"What.. what did we do?" Pinkie Pie stammered.

"Don't worry girls.. the Elements of Harmony can't hurt any normal pony. They are just meant to eradicate darkness. If he is the Master of Darkness as he said, I guess it makes sense that this happened." Twilight stated.

They all looked at Shaded, he was not dead, but he was badly hurt. His entire wing and part of his backside including his Cutie Mark had disappeared, now with blood slowly flowing out of it. Shaded moved his head up, with his hood now off, and used his horn to try and heal himself. "You're an Alicorn!" Rarity gasped, surprised upon seeing this.

"So you're a being of true darkness, huh?" Rainbow started. "No wonder our powerful friendship was able to do this. I bet you don't even have any friends, you big ugly monster."

"Rainbow.. don't be so mean." Fluttershy whispered.

"I.. I do have friends.." Shaded painfully muttered.

Twilight walked right up to the pony that was bleeding out on the floor and stared at him with cold eyes. "Where are the Princesses?" She questioned, unmoving.

"I.. I don't know.." Shaded breathed, barely remaining conscious.

"Don't lie to us, we know you did something to them!" Rainbow shouted.

"But I.."

"Tell us where they are now, or I will use a spell to block your magic." Twilight stated.

"Aint that goin a bit overboard, Twilight?" Applejack questioned.

"Well look at how useless he is right now. He can't even help himself out of this. Where are these so-called friends of yours then, huh Mister Master of Darkness? Must of left you here by yourself." Rainbow sneered.

Shaded looked up at her, with his face twitching in a pained expression. "Well it makes sense to me," Rarity said. "I wouldn't want to be stuck with darkness at all."

"You don't know what you're doing…" Shaded stated, an angry look on his face.

"Oh and what are we doing monster?" Rainbow questioned.

"I.. Am not… A MONSTER!" Shaded screamed, getting back up on all fours, as the 6 friends got thrown into the walls around him.

Twilight watched as Shaded's original cloak began to get turn a shiny black, his hood now becoming a collar. Spikes started to break through his last wing, and his fur started to turn a blood red. He opened his once blue eyes, one now a glowing red, and Twilight saw as his face contorted to that of a nonchalant, murderous type of face.

"I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING!" this mutated Shaded screeched, the very sky turning to pure black, as a dark purple aura started to appear around him. As far as the aura reached out, everything around it started to fade from existence.

Shaded then started to charge his magic right to his horn, an insane look on his face, as he looked at Twilight.

Celestia rammed herself into the room, breaking down one of the doors. "Shaded! Don't do it!" Celestia yelled as she ran towards him.

Shaded looked at Celestia, his eyes starting to fade into a bluish hue again and he muttered, "C.. Cel..tia.." Then one of his eyes were overtaken by red again and he screeched, "NO EVERYONE IS OUR ENEMY HERE!" By this point Celestia had flied next to Shaded, embracing him in a hug.

"Come on now, calm down.. your friend Celestia is here, Shaded." Celestia chanted softly, holding him tightly.

The sky had started to fade back into its former sunny day, and the aura around Shaded had faded away. He looked with his blue eyes at Celestia, a small smile upon his face, and then collapsed onto the ground. Celestia stepped back, surprised at how weak he was, and then finally got a full look at him.

She nearly threw up at the sight.

There was her friend, with one wing torn like a piece of paper, and the other completely missing from his body, along with part of his backside missing where his Cutie Mark should have been, blood coming out of every wound on his body, this time quickly flowing onto the castle floor.

"Princess..?" Twilight said softly.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" the usually calm and mellow princess yelled. Celestia quickly carried the unconscious body to the castle infirmary, whispering 'please don't die' over and over again.

The mane six looked at the large pool of blood as they had just realized that the being they had just fought had been innocent, telling the complete truth, and was in fact friends with the princess, the entire time.

Author's Notes:

(A/N) I'm actually surprised I was able to update this quickly. Usually I'm pretty busy with shizz. Oh well. There aint no rest for the wicked I guess.

Also, thank you for being my first reviewer on this story VarietyGuy! :D

A Glimpse Of Truth

Celestia ran towards the castle infirmary with one thought in her mind: no matter what he had done, he didn't deserve this. Nopony did.

Tears were forming around her eyes as she entered through the door, panting from running down the long halls of the castle. She looked at her staff, who were staring at her in shock, for they had never seen their princess so upset before.

"Please.. help him.." Celestia murmured.

Quickly her staff of nurses and doctors all dropped everything they were doing and lifted the bleeding alicorn onto a bed, and immediately went to work on him.

Celestia sat down next to the bed as the doctors continued to work, none daring to ask what happened.

Deciding to try to think about the fun past compared to this dreadful moment. She took a walk down memory lane: but kept thinking of all the worst things. Discord, going insane with power, being absorbed by darkness, and nearly taking over Equestria. Luna, overcome by jealousy, and almost being destroyed by the darkness inside her. All of this was his fault. But... they were friends.

They all were friends.

Celestia sighed.

An hour had passed without her noticing. Shaded was lying on the bed, apparently stable.

He was in a cast covering a good portion of his torso and lower half, and his face still had a sense of utter pain stretched across it. Celestia just sat there and stared at him.

She brushed her hoof across his face, and whispered, "Oh why did things have to change..."

At the feeling of her touch, Shaded awoke from his slumber. As he opened his eyes slowly, the first thing he saw was Celestia, her eyes closed with tears flowing down her face.

"Celestia..." he began. "I am very happy of your concern towards me, but you should realize who I am, and who I am not. Then again... those things could be the same." Celestia stopped and took a look at him again, this time examining his whole body instead of just his face. This was Shaded... but the Shaded Darkness she knew had no horn, and no wings.

The Shaded she knew was a simple equine.

"... You're him, arent you?" she said slowly.

"Yes, I am the essence of his power." He told her, closing his eyes.

Celestia then began to calm down, and in a more serious tone said, "Why are you here?"

"You know why I'm here. I sent you a message telling you that he was coming, and the first thing you do is contact the holders of the essence of your power. I am not pleased." the being began. "Darkness must exist within every universe, and the fact that this universe is void of it is going to cause instability within here, destroying all of 'her' work."

"His and your powers are not welcome here. He nearly destroyed everypony with his power when this all started." Celestia countered.

"Actually, this all started with you. It ended with you too. Maybe if you were a better friend, then none of this would have happened, and you six would still be inseparable." he stated.

"I am the ruler of Equestria, and I treat all my little ponies equally! They are all my friends!" She remarked angrily.

"So, you send your friends to the moon? Seal them away in stone? Take away their powers, and make them constantly move from place to place? Make them omnipresent so that they aren't able to physically be anywhere? Lets not forget what you did to my counterpart either, blasting pure light into darkness completely destroys it, wouldnt ya know? Let me tell you something: the reason why the Elements of Harmony stopped working for you was because you were the Element of Magic, the binder of Friendship, and when you ran out of friends, you were force-removed from the Elements." he replied, glaring at her.

"Now let me tell you why I'm here: I am going to recreate Shaded's form, but because of what you had your Elements do to me, I have no choice but to make him in the same form I am, with all of these horrid bruises. Since he is in all terms being reborn, he will have no memories of what happened, or even of his name. I will send him to a place where he can be happy, and simply be an output for my darkness. As long as he remains with friends, and is enjoying his life, nothing will happen." he finished.

"But... what will I do if he grows out of control again?" she slowly asked, defeated.

"Nothing. You cannot and will not interfere with my plans anymore then you already have. The only reason why I haven't wiped you from this very existence is because from all of the old memories I can feel from Shaded. He cared highly about you. Just like he did with everyone." At hearing this, Celestia flinched, a twinge of sadness appearing on her face.

The being injured in bed looked at Celestia, and sighed. "Let me tell you something. I spend every day watching over everything, everywhere, all alone, in a place where nopony is meant to exist. Let me explain this to you. I am Darkness. Not just a name, but the very thing itself. I need these little 'outputs' of my darkness in every world because without them having amazing friends and fun life's to counteract my power, my darkness would eventually leak out of that lonely place, and destroy everything, leaving everything dead." he finished.

".. I dont quite understand but.. okay. Do what you must, but don't let any of my ponies be hurt." Celestia said, looking away.

"Sigh... This is going to take awhile to heal..." the being muttered to himself, looking at the bandages. "I need to leave now so I can fully recover. I bid you adieu, Celestia. Just remember: do not interfere with my plans."

With that, the being disappeared, leaving nothing but a silent Celestia behind.

Author's Notes:

(A/N) Sorry this took so long to update but my life is yes. (Kudos if you get the reference) Anyway, with school and everything catching up to me, it took me awhile to update. Anyway, enjoy everypony!

What is Friendship?

The ponies sat in the middle of the throne room, pondering over what happened. "Did you see what that guy looked like?" Rainbow Dash said.

"Well I got a look at him, but it was pretty dark in there. I only remember his weird eyes, and the fact that he was an Alicorn." Twilight answered.

"Ah don't know bout cha ponies, but I'm about fixin to go apologize to Celestia mahself." Applejack stated.

"She sounded so angry…" Fluttershy whispered.

"You heard the Princess before though! The Elements of Harmony aren't able to harm anypony!" Pinkie Pie added.

"That is true… but still, his entire wing was gone, and he looked like he was in a lot of pain." Twilight muttered.

"Maybe we should just ask Celestia of this when she is done making sure he is okay." Rarity stated.

On cue, the Princess herself walked out, with an emotionless look on her face. Twilight was about to say something, but Celestia interrupted her. "He is fine girls, he will pull through, though I doubt he will be coming back anytime soon. All of you can go back to Ponyville, or stay here at the castle, but right now I need time to myself."

Then Celestia walked through another door, everypony watching her leave.

"Well, now what?" Rainbow asked. They all looked at eachother, not knowing what to do.

"Maybe we should all git on back to Ponyville and leave Celestia with herself." Applejack said. They all silently agreed, and began their trek back to Ponyville, while Twilight had a lingering thought.

'If that pony was an Alicorn like Luna and Celestia, why haven't I heard of him before…?'

Celestia stood in the glass history hall, looking from window to window. She finally stopped, looking up at the ceiling. She sighed to herself, and began to think. 'There isn't much I can do to stop this… I shouldn't tell Luna about what happened either, or else things could fly into chaos, just like last time.'

Remembering that the throne room was still partially destroyed, she headed down there, hoping nopony would interrupt her. She trotted her way into the room, looking at the massive hole in the wall. She sighed once again, and with a flash of her magic, everything in the room was restored.

She looked about the room once more, and remembered the past. The six of them, always playing together here, before it was even a castle. All of them accepting each other's weaknesses and strengths at their full value, and being the best of friends, despite how different they were. She then walked right in between the thrones that sat there, and pressed her hoof on the middle of the picture that expanded across the floor.

The ground began to open up, leading to a stairway that spiraled downwards. She simply opened her wings, and floated down.

Landing gracefully at the end of the stairs, she looked around the area. It was covered in cobwebs, and was extremely dark. However, she was still able to make out everything in the room, just by memory.

The friendship they had was one that was destroyed. Celestia widened her eyes as she heard voices from her past taunting her mind.

"You've taught me something invaluable, Celestia. Friendship is powerless. There is no point to it, other than pain and suffering. The only way to fill up that void of despair is with laughter."

"Celestia… why? I thought we were family. I trusted you! I was loyal to you!"

"Celestia, I have met you with nothing but kindness, so listen. If you keep this up, this world will not head to the way of harmony, as you always pursue."

"I know what you're trying to do, hiding the truth from the public! He was my best friend.. no. He was my love, and you did this to him!"

"You know me… I'm nothing but nice and generous to all of you… please…don't destroy me.. I don't want to die."

That last voice rang in her head, and has been haunting her to this very day.

"I don't want to die."

She thought back on how foolish she was. She assumed since the Elements were powered by their friendship, that they would never hurt one of them, just vanquish the negativeness from them.

She silently weeped to herself and, not knowing what else to do, headed back to her room. After closing the floor, she began her descent up the stairs. When she arrived in the hallway, she heard her sister's voice. "Celestia! Are you okay? I heard there was a strange explosion from the castle, but I haven't seen anything strange."

Celestia, without turning to her sister, said, "It was just a fireworks mishap. It has all been dealt with already. Now I will be retiring to my room for the night. See you in the morning." Then quickly walked to her room, shutting the door behind her, leaving a confused Luna outside.

Celestia then fell onto her bed, and collapsed into a pile of tears. Her regrets for a thousand years echoed throughout her mind. After she had cried her eyes out, she had one last thought after she fell asleep.

Friendship really is nothing.

Author's Notes:

(A/N) This stuff is taking awhile to write. I'm trying to dedicate myself to doing one every week, but its tough with school stuff going on. I'm also trying to do a lot of other things, so I hope you guys understand.

An Unknown Pony

Months later, the mane six had forgotten about what had happened during the eclipse.

Everything was as normal as could be.

Thunderstorm clouds were rolling in, darkening the skies. A blue pegasus was flying through the skies, observing the weather. "Aw, what they hay!" Rainbow Dash screamed. "The pegasi didn't tell me about a freakin storm rolling in! I should know about this stuff! I oughta show them a thing or two!"

Lightning came down from the sky above, right next to her. "Urr… or maybe I should just go and take cover for now."

Deciding it was safer on the ground then in the air, she flew down and landed. 'Well, I guess it's a bad idea to try to go to my house, since it is in the air. Maybe I should just go to Twilight's house.' She thought to herself. 'Knowing her, shes probably going to want to make it a sleepover, and pull out that sleepover book of hers… hah, what an egghead.'

She began to walk towards Twilight's house, being careful so that she didn't get hit by any debris from the strong winds. All of a sudden, she could hear a distinct roaring coming from somewhere behind her.

Rainbow turned around and saw a streak of the black clouds crashing towards earth, right outside of the ominous Everfree Forest. When the clouds hit the ground, the very land of Ponyville began to shake.

"What the…" Rainbow Dash began. However, as soon as it started was how quickly it stopped. Rainbow took one last look at the border of the Everfree Forest, and decided she would check it out later.

She turned around and was about to continue walking to Twilight's, when she stopped in her tracks.

She looked over her shoulder back to the border, with eyes wide, and flew with all her power towards that border, a sonic rainboom appearing behind her. Nopony in the town could hear her, as she flew by in a burst of light, screaming her best friends name. "FLUTTERSHY!" Rainbow yelled, speeding faster and faster towards the cottage nestled at the corner of the dangerous forest.

Fluttershy looked outside her window, at the horrible storm in front of her. "I hope all the animals are okay…" she whispered.

Angel was on the upper floor, looking out into the storm with binoculars to make sure all the animals in the recent vicinity were either safe or in cover. Then Angel saw something that made him run down to get Fluttershy's attention. Angel ran downstairs, and coughed.

"Oh what's wrong Angel?" she said.

He pointed at the window, and spun around.

"Do you feel dizzy?"

He shook his head, and did it again.

"Do you feel like dancing?"

He gave Fluttershy an annoyed look, and pointed her head to the window, aimed up at the sky.

"Do you feel like we should take cover from that strange tornado?"

Angel then waited for her to react to the news.

"Wait… A TORNADO?!"

Angel then started to drag her away, into their inside shelter, when Fluttershy saw something in the darkness of the Everfree Forest. 'Is that… a pony?' she thought. Next thing she knew, she was watching in shock as the strange tornado hit the pony, creating a crater in the ground, and causing the area to shake violently.

Fluttershy closed her eyes in shock, and felt the vibrations go through the ground, knocking over some of the items in her house. Then she opened them, and saw the unconscious pony lying right outside her house, motionless in the middle of the crater.

Lightning violently flashed through the sky as she ran towards the door to her house, despite Angel's protests, and threw it open to go and help the pony.

Running to the crater, she looked at the pony with worried eyes, and then wedged herself between the pony and the ground, as to get it on her back.

Looking around at a fire that had been sparked, she decided it was best to hurry.

After getting it on her, she slowly paced herself back to her house, so it didn't fall off. While she was walking, she heard a voice coming from the town.

"Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Where are you?" she heard somepony yell. Realizing who was yelling for her, she started to yell as loudly as she could, "Rainbow! I'm over here!"

Rainbow Dash flew to where Fluttershy was, and said, "Boy am I happy you're okay. I was worried that cloud formation might've done something to you."

"No, I'm perfectly fine, but as for the pony on my back, it needs medical assistance. It's too cold and dangerous to treat it out here; I need to get it to my house." Fluttershy replied.

Rainbow nodded her head, and slipped in next to Fluttershy, helping her carry the weight of the unknown pony. They walked together towards the house, determined to help out the pony.

Author's Notes:

(A/N) I want to thank everyone who is reading my story so far, you guys are awesome! Please leave a review, because I want to be able to advance my quality of writing based off of what you say. No flames, just criticism. I would like to hear some nice things from you all too ^-^