Mysterious Alicorn
Chapter 15
By Aponymous

"Would you like to go on a walk?"

Fluttershy seemed more timid than usual but it wasn't as though I could inquire, so i simply nodded and gestured for the front door.

As we left I gave a look back to the room, now mostly empty other than our small group of freinds, to see Twilight giving me a supportave look, as though to say *Good luck*. I smiled at her and followed Fluttershy out the door.

The main street was deserted, shadows clung to every corner not lit by the street-lights. Mist was filtered the light, causing the shafts emanating from the fires to be visible. We stepped out onto the sidewalk and started trotting, going no where in particular. Silence once again fell over us like a thick fog, seeming almost hesitant to leave.

Fluttershy was keeping pace, looking pointedly at the ground in front of her. I realized it must be incredibly hard to have a conversation with somepony who can't talk, unfortunatly there wasn't much I could do to remedy that so I just kept walking and hoped she enjoyed the silence as much as I did.

We continued the walk in until we arrived at the park, at which point I gestured up the hill to the lookout point. She nodded and we began up the hill still remaining in silence. A silence I could feel gradually becoming less of a comfortable one and more of an awkward silence.

After what felt like an eternity we arived at lookout point. The whole of Ponyville was lain before us in one breathtaking view. Everything was in front of us, looking as though it could be picked up in one hoof.

I turned to Fluttershy to find her admiring the view, looking entrenched in thought. My mind was racing, trying to figure out a way to communicate my feelings without speaking. Fluttershy turned her gaze from the town and met my eyes, still remaining just as mute as me.

After a few moments of stareing my mind stopped trying and simply did. I slowly leaned foward, lowering my head, closing my eyes and hopeing above hope that this was the right thing to do. I could feel her breath on the tip of my nose and angled my head slightly before after what felt like an eternity, contact.

My mind went blank, the endless worrying and indecision stopped and all I could think about was the warmth of the contact between us. If I had been capable of thought I would have worried about when to break off as to not seem to intense, but fortunatly, I was not. After what felt like an eternity we broke apart, both dumbstruck.

I tried to gauge her reaction, she wasn't hitting me which was a good sign. She took a moment to gather herself before saying with a voice resembling that of a frightented mouse

"I might have a crush on you"

A small part of me found the way she worded that amusing, however, a much larger part of me was ecstatic that my feelings where returned and I could finnaly get some closure. We leaned in for another much shorter kiss before gazing back out across the town.

We instantly noticed something was awry. thick colomns of smoke were rising from the village and we could see the tips of large fires billowing from over the tops of buildings. For the first few seconds we just stood there, not sure what we were looking at. It seemed to strike us both at the same time that the fires couldn't have spread naturally.

I decided whatever was happening, I would put a stop to it or at the very least help. Just as I began to take note of where the fires were Fluttershy gasped and shouted

"My cottage! MY ANIMALS!"

It occured to me that there were five fires. One for each of my freinds, that didn't live in clouds that is. I gestured for her to ago ahead, signaling that I would catch up. It was strange, I didn't feel paniced or worried. From an onlookers perspective I would have seemed cool, calm and collected.

That doesn't mean I moved slowly though. I ran faster than I had before, sprinting down the same path we took to get to the Park. I slowed as I approached the corner adjactent to Sugar Cube Corner, useing a more cautious manner of approach this time, trying to muffle my hoofsteps.

I poked my head around the corner and was horrified by the sight before me. 3 Unicorns stood before me lobbing what seemed to be small containers at liquid at the pastry shop. The containers burst open on impact and spread liquid fire everywhere.

Rage boiled-up from a place within me I'm ashamed to admit exists. I was hesitant to hurt more ponies but I wasn't going to let them burn my freinds home to the ground. I began to focus my magic, aiming for more control than I had previously exerted, and attempted to levitate their legs.

The effect was instantanious, all three of them shuddered out of suprise and began looking around before spotting me. By the time they began to focus their magic on me it was to late. Whatever is wrong with my magic began to work itself on their legs. I won't go into great detail, but it's not something I want to do again.

Screams eminated from their collective mouths but I didn't pay attention to them beyond the point at which they weren't a threat. I stepped over them and opened the door to the burning building. The inside was in no better shape than the outside, pretty much the only difference was that I didn't get the drop on the Unicorns in there.

It took me a few moments to gauge the situation but I didn't let my guard down. On the far side of the room stood five distraught looking mares, standing their ground behind a shield Twilight was generating. The 3 unicorns standing adjacent to the door I just entered had turned to me and red bolts of magic at me.

Fortunatly for me, I wasn't all the way in the house and Adrenelne had heightend my reaction time. I ducked out of the room, feeling the bolts of magic pass by me by a matter of inches, shattering the doorframe.

Two of them continued firing at me while the other went back to trying to crack Twilight's shield, which seemed to be wavering. Twilight looked exhausted her magic dimming more every second.

I wasn't going to risk time concentraiting on a non-lethal method of taking them down. I just reached out with my magic, feeling for them. Once I had a handle on them I just poured unfocused, unbridled energy into them.

After a few seconds the shooting stopped and the screaming began. I looked away, but it sounded rough. I opened my eyes and took in the situation. three small piles of ashe sat on the ground, wreathed in flames. I paid them as little attention as I could focusing on prefering to focus on the mares.

Even as I turned my gaze to them, my attention is ripped away by a voice coming from the raidio.

"Sandman Actual come in, this is Sandman 2, We've almost finished at the Cottage. Have you finished in the village?"

I met eyes with Rainbow Dash, who was the only one not comforting somepony else.

"Fluttershy!"

Ending the chapter here because I'm to tired to continue, so... What will h appen? Will Fluttershy be ok? Who sent these Ponies?

That was Rainbow talking by the way.