Fluttershy's Dark Sky

Fluttershy's Dark Sky (originally titled Flutter's Dark Sky and written by CloudMistDragon) is a "grimdark fanfic", in the same sense of how "Cupcakes" is a shipping fanfic. The story (divided into five parts) focuses on Fluttershy, who after dying and being brought back to life by the phoenix feather she procured from Philomena in the episode "Bird in the Hoof", decides to kill Rarity, force her to endure seven “celestial rituals”, and turn her into an immortal...at least initially. The story ends up becoming so unnecessarily contrived and confusing that any attempt to figure out its main plot would be near meaningless midway through, by which point Twilight has used her magic to kill and immortalize every pony in town, Fluttershy is "using her pen to fill out Discord's tax forms", and Spike has been filming the entire thing to create an educational movie for school students. ...Yeah, I think you get the idea. The story can be found and read on fanfiction.net,as well as FIMFiction.net.

==Plot== ==Part One== Rarity reluctantly goes to Fluttershy's house for a tea party. She drinks too much tea, and is forced to use the bathroom in Fluttershy's basement, where she finds the dead bodies of her friends, including Fluttershy. Shocked and having no idea what is going on, she faints upon being greeted by Fluttershy, who prepares to carry out her plans...

==Part Two== Rarity awakens to find herself tied up and hanging by a rope on the ceiling of Fluttershy’s basement. Fluttershy appears, and reveals the truth. She became an immortal being upon acquiring a phoenix feather from Celestia’s pet Philomena, and wants to turn Rarity into an immortal as well. After demonstrating her power and having a flashback in her mind to when she discovered it for the first time, when Rarity inadvertently killed her by giving her poisoned tea, she goes into even greater detail by telling her that she had been ordered by Celestia to kill her friends and turn them into immortals as well. Unable to handle the situation, Rarity faints again.

==Part Three== When Rarity awakens once more, Fluttershy begins putting her through the seven “celestial rituals” (apparently) necessary to prepare one’s body, mind, and soul to be matured into that of an immortal’s. Rarity finds the trials impossible to tolerate after enduring the fourth ritual, and is able to escape the basement when the naive Fluttershy reminds Rarity that she can use magic.

Upon breaking out of the house however, she finds that the walkway has been blocked by clouds powerful enough to produce and strike lethal bolts of lightning to anyone who passes under them. Confused upon noticing skyscrapers and a technologically advanced Equestria in the distance, Twilight appears and explains to her that Fluttershy truly did discover the power of immortality. Twilight explains even further that upon being killed and resurrected by Fluttershy, her magic abilities became exceeding more powerful, powerful enough to kill everyone in Equestria and turn them into immortals in an instant.

Now the god (or “Light Lord”) of a universe where every pony is immortal and enjoys nothing more than to celebrate the fact by inflicting violence upon themselves, Twilight offers Rarity immortality as well. Rarity refuses in disgust, and Twilight forces her to go back into the house and survive the remainder of Fluttershy’s rituals. Before she makes her leave, Twilight also gives her a weapon constructed from the Elements of Harmony that can petrify any entity with an impure heart, so that Rarity can kill Fluttershy and herself. But when Rarity comes back in the house and finds Fluttershy “filling out Discord’s tax forms” she falls unconscious in horror.

==Part Four== Rarity wakes up to find herself in Fluttershy’s living room. Dressed in a black jacket, pants, and a sock hat, Fluttershy raps and sings music with her band “Dark Sky” (consisting of Rainbow Dash, Dumb-bell, Hoops, Score, and Derpy Hooves) for the final rituals. Rarity goes insane upon hearing the “melody of death” prepared for her, and tries to kill Fluttershy with the weapon given to her by Twilight. To her shock though, Fluttershy is unphased by it, for Fluttershy doesn’t have an evil heart. Unable to understand this, Rarity has a nervous breakdown. Having lost her will to live, she runs outside and allows herself to be struck by lightning and killed by the clouds before Fluttershy can kill her herself.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As Fluttershy mourns Rarity’s death, it is revealed that Spike had been watching the rituals and filming them undetected through the use of a tiara that makes its bearer invisible. Spike tells the pegasi that Celestia ordered him to do so, hinting that Celestia’s motive for setting everything up was to create an erotic movie. He then informs them about the repercussions of Twilight’s insanity, and that to put her plan to become the ruler of a perfect world, she tricked Luna, the goddess of Death in this incarnation, into taking a 1000 year vacation to the moon, the afterlife in this story. With no pony else on the moon because of their immortality, Luna is completely unaware of what has happened in Equestria. Being the first pony to go to the afterlife since Twilight’s reign of tyranny, Rarity has told Luna everything, and in rage, Luna makes her way back and arrives at earth to sort things out.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">==Part Five== <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Luna returns to Equestria, and reveals to Fluttershy and the others that Twilight’s promise of immortality is a lie, for the citizens of Equestria have merely become zombies and lingering spirits. Pinkie Pie soon appears and reveals that she is the true mastermind behind the chaotic events in Equestria.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">She prepared a batch of cupcakes filled with neurological toxins that she gave to Celestia and Luna, whom upon eating them lost their ability to think rationally and ordered all the ponies in Equestria to eat them. As a result, the villagers (including the mane six) lost their minds as well, leading to everything that has happened so far. Pinkie Pie has also prepared a cure, which Celestia and Twilight have unfortunately taken, leading them to change back to their normal state of mind, and remember all of their horrible misdeeds. Before they die, Twilight removes the immortality spell she cast on all of the ponies. In her irrational state of mind, Pinkie Pie believes that everything is a dream, takes the cure believing there will be no consequences and dies.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Now that Celestia, Twilight, and Pinkie are dead, Luna seizes the oppurtunity to become the new leader of Equestria. After sending all the ponies (except for Fluttershy and the Dark Sky, as they are members of the Lunar Republic) to the afterlife, Luna praises Fluttershy for all that she is done and declares her a hero.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Afterward however, it is revealed that the neurotoxins in the cupcakes that every pony had been eating only have a lifespan of a week... A week later, Fluttershy is seen crying at the spot where Pinkie Pie died, as the fate of Luna and the Dark Sky members is left unknown. The fanfic ends with a congratulatory message from the author to the readers for lasting this long in the dark sky for their strong mind that truly understands fantasy.