Fluttershy's Giant

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Part Five

Fluttershy sighed and closed the door to her small cottage.

"What to do? What to do..." she thought as she paced about her living room. "I can't really show my friends... they'll hate him. But will they? They are my friends after all... but Applejack and Rarity might not appreciate him scaring their sisters. Ohhh. I don't know."

She danced about on her hooves and whinnied with anxiety.

*Knock* "Fluttershy? You in? I wanna talk to you about something," came Rainbow Dash's voice.

Fluttershy yelped and jumped when she heard the knock. "Oh, Dash, you startled me!"

"Sorry, Flutters. You alright?" Rainbow asked as she flicked her rainbow mane out her eyes.

"Yes. Just fine. Can I ask what you're doing here so early?"

Rainbow nodded. "Yeah, I wanted to ask you if we were still on four our pony-pet-play-date? With Angel and Tank?"

"Oh," Fluttershy completely forgot about that. "Was that today? I'm sorry, I forgot..." she mumbled.

"Psh'aw, Fluttershy, we all forget things sometimes. Remember when Twilight forgot to send the princess a report?" Rainbow laughed and nudged her friend.

"Hmm. Yeah." Fluttershy smiled. Then, as if a light came on in an oven, she had an idea. "Hey, Rainbow..."

The cyan pegasus looked at her and nodded her head. "hmm?"

"Do you think I could... borrow a few of those Daring Do books you love so much? I mean, if you want to. You don't have to if you don't want to."

Rainbow's jaw fell agape. "You like Daring Do?" she cried incredulously.

Fluttershy nodded. "Well, I thought I might read some to a... friend of mine. He's fairly new in the forest, and I don't think he's ready to meet the rest of the ponies in Ponyville. he's very shy. Almost a baby," she sputtered.

"Really? A friend you say? A friend as in friend or..." she lowered her eyelids and licked her lips. "Or a friend?"

"Oh goodness no!" Fluttershy squealed and blushed.

"Heh. I'm just messin' with ya 'Shy. So who is he?" the rainbow maned mare laughed.

Fluttershy blushed again. "He's... a dog," she mumbled.

"Just a dog? He got a name?"

"Well, I don't think he likes being called anything else. So I just call him Dog."

"Dog? What a weird name." Rainbow snorted and flicked her mane again. "So where does ''Dog'' live?" She made air quotes with her wings for added measure, with a slight grin.

Fluttershy squeaked. "In the um... Everfree." she whispered and hid in her mane.

"What? Fluttershy, you know anything that live in the Everfree, minus Zecora, is evil right?" Rainbow sputtered.

"Oh but he's not. he's like a baby. He just needs to be taught what's right and wrong. That's all." "I hope."

Rainbow tapped her chin. "if you say so. Sure you can borrow a few books. I'll fly over and get them for ya."

"Oh you don't have to do that now, but I thought... later... perhaps..." Fluttershy trailed off as Dash sped off towards her cloud house. She came back almost instantly. A rather large collection of books in her forelegs.

"Here ya go, Flutters. Don't let anything chew them." she warned and dropped the books on the table with a loud (for Fluttershy's) bang.

Fluttershy gazed at the books and smiled. "I think he'll love them, Dashie."

Rainbow watched her carefully. "You haven't used my nickname in years. Why the sudden change?" she asked suspiciously.

"Oh, no reason. It's just a nice name," the butter yellow pegasus smiled and placed as many books as she could carry in her saddlebag, ready for her trip back to her giant. "Shall we get on with our play-date? If you still want to that is."

Rainbow smiled. "Still the same old Fluttershy. Just with a mysterious new friend. I wonder if Twi knows about him." "Sure, Flutters. I'll pick up Tank and meet you at the park, 'K?"

"OK," Fluttershy replied and smiled. "Come on, Angel Bunny," she said to a rather annoyed looking rabbit by her leg.

He sighed and hopped onto her back.

She nuzzled him and trotted outside, to see Rainbow tilting her head at the chicken coop.

"Fluttershy... what the heck happened?"

"What happened with w- Oh... my..."

Rainbow Dash turned to her friend. "You mean you don't know?"

Fluttershy shook her head and let her lower lip tremble. "Was this DOG? Did he do this on purpose? No. Of course not, Fluttershy." "I... I guess Elizabeak laid an egg?" she ventured, wincing at the obvious falseness of her lie.

Dash snorted and rose into the air, landing in the wreckage. "Explain how an ''egg'' does this." she said and kicked a plank of wood away.

"Um... it was..." She fought for a word, then remembered one of her favourite authors when she was a filly. "Big?"

Rainbow stared at her friend. "What happened? Tell me, maybe I could go get some help."

"No, it's alright. I was planning on getting a new coop anyway." Fluttershy said in her namesake. "Now um... let's get going on our play-date... can we? Please?"

Dash held a hoof up. "Alright, alright. But you gotta explain soon. Did Dog do this? Did he hurt you?"

Fluttershy shook her head vigourosuly. "No!" she shouted, slightly startling her friend.

Dash was taken aback a bit at this. "OK, OK, whatever you say, Flutters. But you tell me if he hurts you. You tell any one of us, you hear?"

Fluttershy nodded. I won't have to. Because he won't. Will he? No of course he won't. He's nice.

"Right. Well, I'll get Applejack to help clean this up after our play-date. 'K?"

"OK," Fluttershy nodded as they trotted off towards the park.

Rainbow flew up ahead to fetch Tank, and Fluttershy smiled as the sound of a propeller filled the sky.

"Ready?"

"Ready."

They sat and talked for a bit while the pets whizzed about on the park.

***

When their play-date ended, Fluttershy waved Rainbow Dash home and began her own journey home. On the way, she began to get excited about reading to DOG and seeing his reaction.

"Oh he'll love those books," she murmured as she skipped along. "I know he will."

Angel coughed and pointed to his stomach.

"Oh of course, feed you and my friends first, then go read to DOG. That OK Angel?"

The rabbit huffed and threw his paws in the air.

Fluttershy smiled, oblivious to his ''I don't care, just feed me, mare'' gesture, and began pouring some rabbit food into a small bowl.

She rushed about, giving the other animals their dinner as she did, and picked up one of the 'Do' books.

"Daring Do And The Moonstone," she read and scanned her eyes over the blurb. "Daring Do goes on another of her adventures to find the legendary Moonstone to help her sick mother."

She flicked through the first few pages and found herself wanting to read more. "No. Better save it for DOG." she said and gazed out the window.

"I wonder how he's doing." she murmured as she picked up her saddlebag and strapped it on. "I hope he likes these stories."

"Of course he will," she told herself as she trotted outside, and back into the Everfree. Back to her giant friend.