The sun shined brightly through the openings of the trees. It was really quiet, not a lot of noise except for the leaves rustling on the ground and in the trees as the wind blew them. There weren't really many animals making sounds, unless you count the birds that were following a yellow Pegasus with bright prink hair. It was Fluttershy and her pet bunny angel.

She was happily humming a tune while the birds flew around her and Angel was hopping near her legs. "It's good to get out of house once every now and then, I'm glad you all decided to come with me, especially you Angel bunny." she said to her animal friends.

She had a picnic basket on her back while trying to find the spot for her animals and her to eat. It wasn't often that Fluttershy came this deep into the forest, but she wanted a change of scenery.

She heard from Rainbow Dash that there was a nice spot with lots of flowers and it was overlooking a pond with beautiful sparkling water. She looked around in awe at the forest. "Wow, I never knew that the forest was this amazing during the day time.

"If only I could find that pond."

"Rainbow Dash said it was around her somewhere" she said to herself." About a minute later, she came to a clearing in the forest with an enormous flower bed. "Ah, I've found it!" she said excitedly. She was just about to head over to the spot until she noticed someone on the other side of the pond. "I wonder who that could be" she said to herself.

She moved a bit closer to get a better view of this mysterious figure. She saw it was a male Pegasus with a long black mane and tail that blew gracefully in the wind.

He looked serious and had a body that resembled to that of Princess Luna's. She couldn't help but stare at at him as his hair blew around his face majestically.

She saw the empty bag with five apple cores laying next to it. As she stared at him, she noticed his eyes were closed, but he had a solumn look on his face.

"Oh, it looks like someone's already here."

"She was too shy to just walk up to someone she didn't know. She decided to leave.

"Maybe we should just go find another spot.

I'd hate to disturb him." she said as she started to turn away. She started back up when-*SNAP* she accidentally stepped on a stick as the snapping sound echoed through the forest. "Eeek!" she screeched. She quickly covered her mouth. It scared her, as well as catch the attention of the gray Pegasus, but he didn't turn his head. His ear twitched as he heard the snap. He simply opened his ruby red eyes and rolled them to the direction of the snapping sound.

"Who's there?"

he asked. She was wondering how he knew it was someone and not just an animal or something. The birds that were following her suddenly scattered. Shadow sat up, walked towards the trees and looked around to find this spy. "I know you're still here," he said.

Angel emerged from Fluttershy's mane, took a quick peek at Shadow, and quickly hid again. Fluttershy inhaled and sighed, learning that there was no use in hiding anymore.

She emerged from behind the tree, slowly, taking cautious steps. She stopped when she was in full view of him. Her legs were shaking. "Were you spying on me?" he asked, demanding an answer. "Oh no I wasn't I w-wasn't." she stammered.

"I-I was just going on a picnic with my pet bunny Angel."Just as I thought I had gotten away from everyone." Shadow said to himself. Fluttershy couldn't help but stare at him. He noticed this. "What are staring at?" he asked angrily.

"O-O nothing, I wasn't looking at anything." she said with a mild blush in her cheeks, and looked away with ears lowered.

"And why are you here?," he asked. "Oh It's just my friend had recommended this spot for my picnic, and I thought I would come check it out. I didn't know someone else was here first. I can leave if you want." she said while looking down and rubbing her leg with her right hoof. He looked at her and sighed.

"Don't bother. he said. He started to walk away when-

"Wait!" Fluttershy yelled. He stopped, and looked back at her. "Yes?" She didn't know what to say, but for some reason she didn't want him to leave so suddenly.

"O-O I, um, well. She struggled nervously to get the words out. He took notice of the nervous and frightened look on her face. "I'm sorry," he said sarcastically, "do I scare you?" He walked back over to stare her down in the face.

This made Fluttershy even more nervous, and mad her blush a little as her ears lowered.

"I don't know why you're scared, I didn't do anything." I-I'm not scared" she said.

"Oh really? Your shaking legs say otherwise.

" She looked down and noticed her legs were shaking uncontrollably. She quickly stopped her shaking legs.

"O-O, sorry, she said. "Oh sorry are?" He got back in her face. "Don't act so weak and defenseless.

People will just walk all over you." Fluttershy looked down in shame. "W-Well this is how I usually act, I guess I was just born and raised that way." He faced away from her. "Well, do you regret it?" he asked. "Regret what?" she asked back?

"Being raised a weakling." She was hurt a little by what he said. "Kindness will hardly get you anywhere. "But being rude won't get you anywhere neither." she said.

"I've made lots of friends by being nice and kind." said Fluttershy. But there is a such as being too kind." he argued back. Y-Yeah but,- Fluttershy struggled to get her words out. "Your parents should be ashamed, they raised a weakling afraid of her own shadow.

I barely know you and I can already tell that you're not worth my time. I don't even know why I'm still here talking to you." Tears started to stream down her face uncontrollably, but she tried her best not to sob, and moved her hair in front of her face so he wouldn't see her crying. She couldn't believe how mean he was being.

She was wondering if she had done or said something that upset him, or if he was like this to everyone else. Her pet bunny Angel saw that he had made her cry and jumped out in front him as if to protect Fluttershy. Angel flashed his teeth in anger at him.

Shadow did the same but with a much more menacing stare that seemed to make Angel lose his, but didn't back away. He seemed to have one tooth slightly, but noticeably sharper then the others, almost like a fang.

"No, it's okay Angel." she said while picking up her beloved pet. "I can never stick up for myself, I'm always letting myself get pushed around."

She wanted to run away, but at the same time couldn't. She rubbed her tears away and faced Shadow, but still looking at the ground. "I was just wondering what you were thinking about. You seemed deep in thought when staring into that pond. I was just wondering if you wanted to talk about it." Shadow faced her again and got back in her face. "I don't have anything to say to anything to say to anyone. I mind my business and they mind theirs." he growled.

"I guess" she said saddened. "Well that's just how I was raised, and my friends like me the way I am." she said in retaliation."

Angel remerged from Fluttershy's mane and noticed something sparkling on the ground. "How do you know that they're not just taking pity on you?" he asked. "You can't trust everyone just because they seem nice." Well, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't, I mean, we've been through so much together." "Don't act like friendships can't end."

They will. " Shadow said. "No way. I love my friends too much to ever get angry and break-up with them."

Fluttershy then took a moment to remember all the good and bad times, and the adventures that they had been on. "Sure we've had some mishaps, but we got through them with our friendship intact. Shadows head started to ache real bad for a second when he heard her say that. He winced at the pain but then quickly recovered.

"Are you okay?"she asked with a worried look. Shadow shook his head. Shadow noticed how sweet and innocent her voice was. He quickly shook his head. "Never mind that,

"Are you even listening to me?" "I'll say it again. You can't trust everyone just beca-" Angel had hopped off the back of Fluttershy's head, making it bob forward." Shadows head was low enough so that when her head went towards his, their lips touched.

I know that this is another short chapter. I had made 1 big chapter with at least 15000 or more words. But I thought that was a bit much and I could just split it up into smaller chapters. It took me a while to get this one up. I've been prepping for the new school year. I already kind of have the next 5 chapters ready, I might post sooner. Hope you continue reading. If the story isn't to your liking, make some requests and I'll see what I can do.