A Hearth Warming Story
Chapter 4: Stave 4
Previous Chapter“Your back Rainbow Dash what happened?” Twilight asked. For a moment and a moment only she mistook the dark figure in front of her as the friendly apparition of Rainbow Dash.
The specter didn’t say a word; it was cloaked with a dark black cloak, shrouding everything but a yellow hoof.
“Fluttershy?” Twilight asked; the spirit didn’t move, nor talk, nor make any gesture.
“I understand what you are going to do Fluttershy; I think I have learned my lesson” Twilight said “I do not need any more mentoring; I have learned I have to be nicer to the ponies around me”
The spirit didn’t move
“Fluttershy is any pony home?” Twilight asked
The spirit remained still
“Fluttershy?”
Without a word the spirit spawned the 2 in the street; it was Ponyville alright Twilight could tell by the mayors officer jetting out from the background.
“Fluttershy where are we what are we doing here?”
Fluttershy didn’t answer again; but with a hand gesture ordered Twilight to follower her. Twilight eventually saw what Fluttershy was motioning to. At first it was hard to see but Twilight envisioned a grown up Vanilla Twist and came up with an exact replica of a mare talking on the street. Twilight could now tell her distinctive marsh mellow coat and ruby red mane from 100 miles away.
“So are you sad about Twilight’s death?” Asked a mare
“Not really” Vanilla said “She was a wicked old witch in my opinion”
All the other mares didn’t seem to surprised “From what I’ve heard she was the sour apple in the bunch”
“Yea; at leastly apples don’t nag and complain and scold and blackmail all the time. That mare is dead and I’m glad; one less problem to worry about. Vanilla Twist snickered.
Is this how Twilight would be remembered? The mean old witch that nagged and complained and scolded and blackmailed?
“Fluttershy where did I go wrong?” Twilight asked; hoping for a response
There was none
But instead the spirit transported her to a sad, doleful looking graveyard. Fluttershy pointed that 1 hoof at a grave
“What is this, my grave?” Twilight asked “I know no one loved me”
Fluttershy just kept pointing before Twilight accepted; the last thing she wanted was to be hit by Fluttershy’ legendary stare.
The tombstone wasn’t Twilight’s own; it was Pinkie Pie’s the epoch stated
“Here lies Pinkie Pie she had 1 and only 1 friend”
Good god did the epoch mean Twilight was Pinkie Pie’s only friend in her later years? That even after all the cruelty Twilight dished out Pinkie Pie felt she was her only friend; was that why she was going to invite Twilight for dinner
“I see Fluttershy; I was her only friend”
The spirit stood still
“Maybe if I had been nicer they would all be here; you and Rainbow Dash”
The spirit stood still.
“Applejack and Pinkie Pie”
The spirit’s hoof shuttered for a split second
“And Rarity and me. We would have been better off; why did it have to end Fluttershy?”
The spirit dropped its hoof to the ground
“I caused this; I’ve been a terrible mare to everypony who tried and help me. I deserve a terrible after life; I was a bad mare. But what happens now? Should I just give up and die alone and depressed?”
The spirit actually seemed to shake its head; or maybe it was Twilights imagination
“Or should I try and be a better mare and try and help everypony who tried and help me?”
There was a pause
“I think I’ll be a better mare; thank you Fluttershy.” Twilight said
“Yay”
“What was that Fluttershy?”
Before Twilight could question the specter anymore she was back in her bed; again; her old bedroom; no Applejack, no Dashie, no Fluttershy there. Just herself
“Bless you mares, bless you” Twilight said
And so Twilight the next day became a surprise to every pony. She was joyous and happy, smiley and energized. She let Vanilla have the day off; and even offered to pay her, she went to pinkie Pie’s and enjoyed her cupcakes and delicious treats.
It was a strange feeling for Twilight; to be liked, although she still had a long time until she would be accepted she knew she was on the right track.
The elements of harmony had been restored.
Well that was the entire story; sorry if you didn't have enough time to get some popcorn. Hope you enjoyed it
-Vespi