"Cloud, where are you?!" Twilight bellowed.
"He must've hidden somewhere Twi'" Applejack said, "Rainbow Dash, find Cloud on the skies."
As the mares entered the house, Rainbow Dash shouted, "Caught you!"
The mares ran outside to see Cloud struggling to free himself from Rainbow Dash (she can be very strong). Cloud flapped his wings harder and harder in hope to make Rainbow Dash lose grip of him. But apparently, Rainbow Dash was stronger than he thought she was.
"Why are you doing this to yourself Cloud?" Twilight asked.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Cloud shouted, "WHY WON"T YOU PONIES LEAVE ME ALONE?!"
Fluttershy was hurt the most and started to cry and then ran away towards her cottage. Cloud lives very close to Fluttershy so she didn't have to cross the whole town before she heads home.
Cloud was still being held by Rainbow Dash who could not hold it any longer so Twilight used her magic to envelop Cloud and hold him in the air. Twilight signaled for Applejack to go to Fluttershy.
"We're here to―" Twilight was interrupted by Cloud.
"SHUT UP! I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP! I CAME HERE TO LIVE IN PEACE! AWAY FROM ALL OF YOU PONIES!" Cloud shouted.
Twilight was shocked at what Cloud said. Twilight then slowly put Cloud down and released as soon as he hit ground. The purple aura around Cloud disappeared. Cloud then ambled towards his house and slammed it and then locked the door.
Twilight and Rainbow Dash just froze where the stood and stared at the door. Applejack and Fluttershy returned to Cloud's house and they saw the two mares staring at the door. Twilight turned around and shook her head and the ponies left Cloud's house.
Two weeks had passed since Cloud was finally discovered, Cloud continued to stay inside his house and only going out to buy the necessities. At times, the six mares caught Cloud, from time to time, at the restaurant where the six usually ate. Cloud sat at the other end away from six ponies. At times, one of the ponies tried to approach him but Cloud did listen but he simply ignored them and continued eating.
One day, the six mares decided to throw a party for Cloud to cheer him up. He went out to buy things in the market. Twilight unlocked Cloud's front door and let Pinkie Pie in with the Party Cannon. Then Twilight let the others in after Pinkie shot the cannon.
Cloud returned to his house immediately by flying through the skies. As he neared his home, he saw two ponies go inside his house. He suspected that it was one of Pinkie Pie's parties. Pinkie dedicated one to Prince Skylight and he was invited but he did not choose to come.
Cloud went inside his house and the lights were all turned off. Cloud took a baseball bat right next to his door and the lights were turned on by somepony right next to him.
Cloud saw Fluttershy right in front of him but Cloud was angry and almost hit Fluttershy with his bat.
"Get out of my house. All of you ponies get out now!" Cloud said calmly as he lowered down his bat.
Twilight stepped up and said, "Cloud, we know that you're angry at us but we're really sorry for―"
"Now," Cloud simply said.
Everypony at Cloud's house packed up and started to leave except the six mares.
"Cloud, please. Just let us help you," Fluttershy said.
"Don't you all get it already? I don't need help from any of you ponies. I barely even met you all," Cloud said.
"Please, Cloud, please!" Fluttershy was already begging.
"Okay, suit yourselves," Cloud said.
The six mares were about to smile but Cloud suddenly left his house and flew away.
Rainbow Dash was about to start chasing Cloud, but Applejack was able to stop her in time.
Cloud flew as far as he can from his house. He didn't know where to stay for a while. All that he could do right now was to rest on a cloud until the mares had gone away to their respective places.
Cloud waited for an hour and a half until he thought something moved the cloud that he was on. He looked below the cloud and on both sides and saw nopony.
"Must've been the winds," Cloud thought.
Cloud laid his back on the cloud and saw a yellow and blue blur zoom across the left side of his vision. Cloud looked at his left and still saw nopony. Suddenly, the cloud rose to the air and Cloud flew off the cloud. Cloud saw Rainbow Dash who was still raising the cloud.
"Leave me alone!" Cloud shouted.
Rainbow Dash stopped and turned to look at him so did Fluttershy. Cloud broke the stares and flew away towards his house.
Rainbow Dash failed her attempt and went to ground with Fluttershy. The two went down to see the other mares.
"Rainbow, what did he say?" Twilight asked.
"He asked us to leave him alone," Rainbow Dash said.
"I guess we'll have to wait for him to come to us sugarcube," Applejack said to Fluttershy.
Eveypony went home so did Cloud. Cloud felt sorry for hurting Fluttershy's feelings for more than two weeks.
Another week had passed the six mares had not seen Cloud at all. Not once. Most of the ponies forgot about the party that they went to a week ago (Of course, the main six had most certainly not!). Since Fluttershy lived very close to Cloud, she would visit Cloud's house occasionally. Fluttershy would knock, nopony would answer.
Twilight and the other were growing restless over Cloud and Fluttershy not being herself anymore. She would not leave her cottage at times, she would whine over simple things, and most importantly, talk about Cloud.
"We need to get Cloud off of his house. He needs some fresh air. Fluttershy's getting affected too," Twilight said.
"I agree," the other four ponies said. Fluttershy was not included with the meeting.
Twilight, Rarity (First time her name was mentioned!), Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash devised a plan to make Cloud and Fluttershy to go out of their homes.
The plan proceeds as the following:
Step 1: Act as if a dragon was attacking the whole town and lie (Hard times for Applejack) that either was killed during the attack.
Step 2: Lure both the victims to the Library but the victims should be on each end so they would not see other immediately.
Step 3: Get it over with. The victims should start to commence to make LOVE! (Not necessarily.)
Twilight and the others split up into two teams. One team for Fluttershy and another one for Cloud. Applejack was placed in Team Cloud because Fluttershy would easily know whether she spoke the truth or lied.
Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity went ahead to Cloud's house and as soon as they got there, Applejack and Rarity started screaming but it seemed a little bit unrealistic. Twilight went up on Cloud's front door and violently knocked on his door.
"Cloud! Cloud, you have to come with us! A gigantic dragon just attacked Ponyville! Fluttershy was killed though but we have to hurry to my library," Twilight said in a distressed voice.
Cloud looked at the glass pane at his window and saw that Ponyville was under fire. Little did he know that it Twilight's magic that caused the hallucination.
"I'll be right back!"Cloud said in a hurried voice.
Twilight waited for a while and the two other mares were still screaming at the top of their lungs. As soon as Cloud went out, he locked his door and Twilight took his hand and Applejack and Rarity soon joined with them. Holding their hands together, Twilight teleported themselves to the library. When they arrived, Twilight soon took off saying that she has to get the others. Applejack volunteered but Twilight refused to let her come with her.
Earlier, Pinkie was standing at Fluttershy's front door and waited for Rainbow Dash to make a sonic rainboom. Seconds had passed then suddenly―BOOM! Rainbow had done the rainboom successfully. Fluttershy went outside and she saw Rainbow and Pinkie at the door.
"Fluttershy, Cloud has been killed by a huge dragon and we need to go to Twilight's," Pinkie and Rainbow Dash said in synchronization. As Fluttershy looked over Ponyville, she saw that it was on flames. Fluttershy went back in and told all the animals to stay in the cottage until she gets back. All the animals agreed so did Angel but he was not happy about it.
Fluttershy went outside and Rainbow Dash and Pinkie were holding their hands together with Twilight.
"Come on Fluttershy, we don't have much time!" Twilight shouted.
Fluttershy ran to the mares and "POOF" they were gone to Twilight's library.
Earlier, Applejack placed Cloud in a corner where they designated him to be. Rarity hid by Twilight's bed and so did Applejack. After a few minutes, the three heard a sound and Applejack signaled Cloud to be quiet. Cloud did not anything because the lights were all unlit (He still saw Applejack's signal because of the lights in the window).
Twilight never said a word, neither did the other three. Rainbow Dash hid Fluttershy, who was now crying and was now lifeless because of the fake loss that Rainbow and Pinkie induced (She'll get scarred for life!) (Who said that?).
After a while, Rainbow and Twilight led their victims to the darkest area in Twilight's library. Rainbow led Fluttershy while cooing her. On the other hand, Twilight led Cloud right in front of Fluttershy. Then they turned the lights on and the two saw each other and Cloud was shocked the he stumbled across Fluttershy. In this situation, Cloud was on top of Fluttershy and she was blushing like a thermometer would in a sunny day that suddenly becomes a cold day.
Cloud froze on top of Fluttershy and Fluttershy would mumble things like, "Is he really alive?"
Cloud and Fluttershy were in the same position for two minutes. Cloud froze as he is while Fluttershy would keep on mumbling things.
After a while, Fluttershy broke everything with a small kiss. Cloud was even more shocked apparently.
The other five mares' plans worked but what they didn't expect was that Fluttershy and Cloud kissed longer.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door and opened it, and the five mares saw a bluish-whitish pony and a blue mane.
"Can I borrow some books here" the mare asked.
"Sure, you can find books all over the area," Twilight replied.
The mare took some fiction books and went to the romance area where Cloud and Fluttershy were. As soon as she saw Cloud, she froze and dropped her books.
"Cloud! How dare you make out with another with another mare!" the blue pony exclaimed.
Cloud stopped and looked over the blue pony and said "oh no".
"Fluttershy meet Mist Flicker. Mist, meet Fluttershy. Also, for your information, you never were my marefriend," Cloud said, "Well this mare is now!"
Twilight and the others heard a shout and went to Cloud and Fluttershy.
"I don't believe you at all!" Mist said and walked towards Cloud and kissed him passionately. Cloud could not do anything because Mist held Cloud tight as she kissed him. Fluttershy did not do anything because she was a door mat.
The other mares were also shocked at the event. They didn't expect that to happen.
Mist kissed Cloud as long as she could until Cloud struggled to free his hooves and cursed for air. Then Mist broke the kiss.
"I told you many times, not to do that at all!" Cloud shouted.
"I don't really mind Cloud. All I know is that you're mine!" Mist said seductively.
Fluttershy ran away and Cloud followed after Mist failed to stop him.
"Why would you do that?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, "Did you not see that he has another marefriend?!"
"Did he?" Mist asked, "Everypony in New Hayshire knew him for not being able to get any mares. That was why he became my coltfriend."Mist left unhappy of her visit and also happy for being able to see Cloud once more.
Cloud went to Fluttershy's cottage and Fluttershy did not open the door for him.
"Fluttershy, I can explain," Cloud said.
Fluttershy opened her door and instantly kissed Cloud and Cloud gave it back.
Fluttershy let Cloud inside her cottage and made Cloud explain. It took them about hours to finish. Cloud finished his story about midnight. Everypony in Ponyville knows not to go out at night even for a short walk because of the dangerous Diamond Dogs that were mining during the night. So Cloud had no other choice but to sleep at Fluttershy's home. Cloud slept at the couch that he sitting on and Fluttershy went to bed.
The following say, Cloud left early and left a note saying: Thank you for understanding.
Cloud went to the library to thank Twilight for what he did even thought it scared the heck out of him. Twilight thanked him also for bringing Fluttershy the way she used to be. Basically, Cloud was not going to be a loner anymore.
"Say Twilight, how about the party where I kicked all you out. Want to re-throw it at my place?" Cloud asked.
Twilight frowned. "Why are you asking me? Shouldn't you be talking to Pinkie Pie?"
"Uh… I guess so," Cloud said. But as he turned around, Cloud saw Pinkie Pie holding a cannon aiming towards him. Cloud's first instinct was to duck and cover as Pinkie shot the cannon. Confetti flew all over and Cloud realized that he was at his house. So were lots of ponies. Mist also showed up and waved at Cloud.
"It's time to PAAAAAAAARRRRRR―TAAAAYYYY!" Pinkie shouted out loud.
The welcome party for Cloud had finally begun. At some point, Prince Skylight and another Alicorn showed up in the party. Cloud went to Prince Skylight and his brother Prince Monochrome. A lot of mares tried to talk to the Princes but most were very shy. Prince Monochrome kept on educating Prince Skylight on how to eat properly, but Prince Skylight decided to ignore him and continue gorging on his cupcake while drinking some apple juice at the same time.
As Cloud was scanning through the crowd, he saw a minty green pony looking at him but as he made eye contact, the mare looked away and talked to another pony.
Cloud had fun with the princes and the main six. He discovered that the six mares were the elements of harmony. Cloud told them that they were really famous in New Hayshire and one mayor planned to arrange their visit but his term ended. The ponies were amused to hear the story.
Suddenly, Ponies began to raise their hooves and saying "Me!" Pinkie Pie had started a game. Pinkie asked everypony who joined to sit around in a circle.
Mist and the green minty pony were very willing to join. Fluttershy made Cloud join too. Cloud and Fluttershy sat together with the rest of the ponies that joined the game.
Pinkie took out an empty bottle out of nowhere. She placed the bottle in the middle of the circle. A lot of mares giggled and some colts rolled their eyes.
"Let's get this started!" Pinkie said.
Mares raised their hooves to volunteer to go first. Mist and the minty green mare raised their hands as well. For the minty green mare, she was looking at Cloud from time to time.
Pinkie spun then the bottle and it landed on one of the mares that were raising their hooves.
The mare took the first spin for the game and it landed on a colt. The mare asked the clot whether truth or dare. The colt chose truth and the mare asked him about the mare that he likes. Due to peer pressure, the colt admitted the truth and a mare gasped.
Another was that the colt was dared to kiss a mare and he did so.
When it was Mist's turn to spin the bottle, she looked at Cloud seductively and ambled towards the bottle and spun it. The bottle pointed to a mare next to Cloud after stopped spinning.
Cloud sighed so did Fluttershy. Ponies took turns spinning (It left many ponies embarrassed or left crying) until it reached the minty green pony. She walked towards the bottle and spun it. The bottle was spinning very fast and it came to a stop. The mare did not ask any questions. She just walked towards Cloud and kissed him.
The mare broke it after a couple of seconds and returned to her original sitting place. A lot of ponies muttered under their breath and some whispered to each other. Cloud stood up and walked out towards his bedroom. Fluttershy soon followed but Cloud closed the door right in front of Fluttershy.
Rarity told Fluttershy to give him time to think what has happened in the past three weeks.
