A Great Change: Chapter Twenty One-Love Triangle

By: TammoWoodsorel

Both Fluttershy and Dragonshy just stared at Twilight before Dragonshy asked, "What?"

Twilight sighed and explained, "It's the only way that I can explain it. There is some sort of powerful emotional connection between you two that allows you to relay energy to him. The only energy recorded that is capable of such a thing is love. Normally love is only used in romance novels to create some type of suspense in the story, but all of the books on the magic of friendship always end on the possibility of forming a bond that is stronger than anything that can be formed with magic. "

Dragonshy and Fluttershy looked at each other. Fluttershy blushed and frantically looked away. Dragonshy looked away as well, unable to face her under such an atmosphere.

Dragonshy turned to Twilight and asked, "So what does this mean?"

Twilight shook her head and said, "I don't know. All I know is that there is a mutual love between you two and that it is allowing her to send you energy without actually coming into contact with you. If you ask me, it is a great opportunity to change how you receive energy so that you don't have to do embarrassing things in public in order to survive. I bet that if I researched it a little more, I would be able to find a way of strengthening the bond to the point of creating a constant supply of energy even over long distances. If that could be achieved then you wouldn't need to come into any more close calls."

Dragonshy nodded. She was definitely right about that.

Dragonshy turned to Fluttershy, lifter her head to be eye-to-eye with him and said, "Well, Fluttershy, I can't deny that I have feelings for you. However…"

The door to the stairwell flew off of its hinges and a yell was heard, "Wait!"

All that could be seen was a cyan blur rush down the stairs with a rainbow trailing after it. In a moment, Rainbowdash was in between Fluttershy and Dragonshy, facing Dragonshy.

She got down and said, "Fluttershy is mine!"

After saying this, she looked confused for a moment. Fluttershy and Dragonshy just stared at her while Twilight was interested in something about the machines that were still hooked up to Dragonshy.

Rainbowdash looked as if she was trying to make a decision as she muttered to herself, "I want Fluttershy… no, Dragonshy, he's actually a stallion… no, Fluttershy, your best gal-pal… no, Dragonshy, an awesome flying partner… no, Fluttershy, she's so great… Dragonshy….Fluttershy… Drag…"

She was cut off by a hoof on her shoulder. She looked to her side to see Fluttershy smiling to her very warmly. She looked up to see Dragonshy was the one with his hoof on her shoulder.

He smiled as well and said, "Relax Rainbowdash. I was just about to say that I have feelings for Fluttershy but I have feelings for you as well and…"

He was interrupted by Twilight saying, "I should say so. Since Rainbowdash walked in the room, your muscle tension, adrenaline flow, respiration efficiency, and circulatory availability have all shot up to be off the charts."

Dragonshy thought for a moment. He believed that he figured something out. Whenever he was with Rainbowdash, he always felt as if he could do anything he wanted. He felt like he could take on any challenge and come out of it ready for more. He began to think about how he felt when he was with Fluttershy. He always felt at peace and he could think perfectly straight to come up with solutions ot problems or even sometimes clear the storm that was his memory.

He asked Twilight, "What went up with Fluttershy?"

Twilight looked at his stats and answered, "Your brain activity, heart rate, blood pressure, and overall capability all became perfect to the point of becoming utterly tranquil."

She looked at the stats and continued, "Both areas are still up even now. How do you feel?"

Dragonshy looked as his hoof as he answered, "I feel incredible. I feel calm and collected as well as willing and able."

Twilight thought for a moment and said, "You three wait right there."

She teleported away right after making her command. She did not keep them waiting for long. Within seconds she appeared back in front of them with a book being held by her magic. She placed the book on the ground and began to flip through the pages.

She stopped at one and said as her horn started to glow brighter, "Hold still."

After a few seconds of preparation, she sent out a ray of magic at the three of them. They were all blown back against the walls. Each one had hit a different wall and all on different sides of the room. After a moment, they began to glow. Twilight watched as they each began to emit their own personal aura. Rainbowdash glowed blue and Fluttershy glowed pink. They were both engulfed in their aura. Twilight saw that their auras began to branch off of the main body. The two auras had sent out an arm of sorts and were steadily reaching toward each other. They connected at Dragonshy. Once the auras touched Dragonshy, he began to glow with a brilliant mixture of pink and light-blue.

Twilight was about to end the spell when something else began to happen. The brilliant light that enveloped Dragonshy became the purist of whites. This white spread across the strands that connected their auras to his. This didn't seem to just change the color, but also strengthen the once curvy strand to become a thick, straight stream of light. This spread all the way across their strands and then changed their auras a white color to match Dragonshy's. Then, as if that was not enough, another strand came from both Fluttershy's and Rainbowdash's auras. That strand connected in between them. There was now a ray of white light connected each one to each other.

Rainbowdash could not keep the fear out of her voice, "What is this? What's going on?"

Twilight shook her head and watched as she responded, "I don't know. I've never read of anything like this."

Dragonshy prodded, "Well what was that spell supposed to do?"

Twilight quickly read the page that the spell had come from and said, "It was supposed to connect the auras of the ponies that are truly in love. I had expected for it to attach you to the two of them, but then this happened. I think that, for lack of a better word, you would call this a 'Love Triangle'."

After a couple more seconds, the light disappeared.

Rainbowdash asked, "What happened?"

Twilight said, "The connections between you three is always there. I had just temporarily made it visible to the naked eye."

…

After the whole scene had ended, Twilight rushed them out the door. She promised that she would research everything that she had been presented with and that she would not rest until she figured out exactly what was going on. They all figured that if anypony would be willing to give up a good night's sleep to do research, it would be Twilight. They stopped at the road that led to Fluttershy's hut and there was a long silence as none of them wanted to part ways.

Eventually, Rainbowdash blurted out, "Fluttershy would you like to come spend the night with me and Dragons?!"

Fluttershy was surprised by this sudden outburst but quickly nodded to show that she accepted the invitation. The three of them walked to Rainbowdash's house. Fluttershy volunteered to make dinner since she wanted to thank Rainbowdash for her hospitality. Rainbowdash readily accepted her offer and waited for her to be in the kitchen before she quickly flew down the stairs to her basement. Dragonshy waited there for her to return. She quickly reappeared with what looked like a basket with three wine glasses and a bottle of something. She held the basket in her mouth as she waited for Fluttershy to finish cooking.

When Fluttershy finally called them into the dining room, Rainbowdash rushed to the table in order to fill each glass and put them into the three spots that were available. Dragonshy took the liberty of looking at what exactly he was about to drink before he sat down. The label read, 'Honey Nectar Ale'. Dragonshy recognized this name as quite a strong drink, plus it was very aged. Dragonshy knew that he would able to stand maybe two glasses of this drink since he was actually an experienced alcoholic, but he was worried about the two mares that he was with. It would only take one glass for ponies their size to be overtaken by such a stiff drink. Dragonshy sat down and glared at Rainbowdash from across the table. Rainbowdash did not see as she was too busy watching Fluttershy sit down and first take notice of the glass in front of her.

Fluttershy sniffed the contents of the glass and asked, "Rainbowdash… is this… um…"

Rainbowdash said very proudly, "It's Honey Nectar Ale. I got some from Cloudsdale after we got back from Las Pegasus. I figured that I should keep your favorite drink in stock just in case you were ever here for dinner."

Fluttershy, not wanting to decline a gift that her friend had gone through so much trouble of getting for her, said, "Oh, well thank you very much Rainbowdash."

Rainbowdash held up her glass and the other two clinked their glasses with hers. That was the last thing that any of them remembered.