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As the dawn broke over the trees Flutura rolled over in her clearing and stretched, it was going to be a beautiful day and she didn't want to waste a minute of it but as she awoke to fluttering around her she opened her eyes and noticed several butterflies around her "good morning little ones, what brings you out this early? Better yet, what brings you out at all? I didn't summon you in my sleep did I?" She asked, it wasn't since she was a teen she did random summoning but maybe in her sleep, just as a once off, maybe she did summon them but the butterflies seemed a little different, more agitated, and now that she was more awake she could tell that something wasn't right. "Alright, so something is wrong, what's up?" She asked as one was flying toward the clearings opening, wanting her to follow "alright, let's go" she said as she got up and took off after the butterfly, the rest following her, she didn't know where they were taking her but she had never been lead astray by them before so hopefully they are not playing some joke on her now, they could be pranksters when they wanted to be...at least her friends could be.

Flutura wasn't one for morning runnings which was why she was inwardly groaning at the fact that she HAD to do this, it was horrible! Why couldn't they have waited till half eleven at the earliest to get her out of bed? She stopped on that thought as the butterflies came to a stop and she saw why, in front of her, in a more dank part of the forest, she saw a poor little white wolf cub next to what she assumed was its mother, laying there, whimpering at the fact that her mother wasn't moving. Flutura walked over slowly and gently nuzzled the pup "it's alright, sweetheart, everything will be alright in some form" she said as she moved passed the pup and over to the mother and checked her over, trying to find what would of killed her and after ten minutes of looking she opened the wolfs mouth and smelt its breath, pulling her head back straight away she realized what had happened, someone had poisoned the wolf but how!?.

"Oh good, finally, it is dead" a voice called out as a pony flew down from a cliff and landed on the ground and started walking over to the crime scene "Flutura isn't it? Have heard all bout you from my mother but then she IS the leader of this herd, your parents are Maiden's Mist and Caprice and you have some siblings, you left home as a teen, never gone back, and you live out here thinking that life is great and no one can bother you as long as you don't bother them, well guess what? Welcome to real life, it's a b***h." Lilith smirked at the other as she glared at the pup "just wait till you get older, kid, your pelt will be the next one we take" she said as she looked at the unicorn "sorry kid but today isn't your day and don't try and attack me or anything because you know you can't win" she said as she placed a bubble around the dead wolf and made it disappear "have fun kiddies" she said as she vanished herself.

Flutura growled as she looked down at the pup who was now crying harder, wondering where it's mother was being taken "darling, I swear, before anything happens to that wolf I will get her back" she vowed as she looked to the butterflies "guys, please go find Dante, at this time, he should be around the castle entrance having a morning 'fight' with his daughter, go get him and bring him back to the clearing, I don't care how you get his attention and make him follow you just do it, somehow tell him it is urgent." Flut said, knowing that the only one who can stop his sister was Dante and she only knew of Dante's whereabouts and his daily going ons because he took care of her when she first moved out of home so she thought of him as a surrogate father and he would do anything for her "and you" she said as she saw the butterflies take off, you are coming with me" she said as she laid down and gestured for him to climb on her back "it is fine, I won't let you fall, just climb on my back" she said as she as the pup looked at her for a few moments before doing so, he had trouble at first but she gently nudged him up and she took off back to her clearing, careful to not let the pup fall.

As the unicorn entered her clearing she stopped short and looked at the male in front of her "what do you want?" She asked gruffly, the fact this pups mother was poisoned is the reason she moved away from all the ponys "I am not in the mood to talk to you" she said as she walked past him and settled down on the ground, letting the pup fall gently onto her bed which was a bit of thick foam she had found laying around the castle and a few old blankets and sheets.

The pup was a little surprised but he just curled back up and whimpered as the unicorn laid next to him, covering him in blankets.

"From you? Just for you to leave, so if you would be so kind?" She said as she snuggled up beside the pup and closed her eyes before opening them again and looked at him, a switch just went off in her brain about what he just said "first of all, yes, not that that is important, second thing is though, since when did you know about this pup? All I told are the butterflies, can't really say butterfly talking is a common thing around here" she said, not that she cared either way, but she still didn't want his help but hearing him out might be fun for a laugh.

"Another one who can talk to butterflies, fine, whatever, just leave please, I have work to do" she said as she kissed the top of the pups head as she perked up and looked toward the entrance, hearing footsteps.

"Flutura, what's wrong?!" The male stopped and saw the other and just ignored him "Flutura, sweetheart, what's wrong?"

"First of all, this guy was just leaving, second, we need to get to your family home right now, I need to take back his little ones mother who is now dead because of your sister, please, we need to get her back!" She said as he nodded "sure, come on" he said as he opened up a portal that would lead them straight to Dante's house.

The pup felt the warm body get up and he looked at the unicorn sadly as if to say he didn't want her to leave.

"It's fine sweetheart, I will be back" she said as he cried a little more and she nuzzled him.

"If you want to make yourself useful I will let you stay just take care of him, he really shouldn't be alone" she said as she ran through the portal with Dante and let it close behind them.

The pup took the meat and nibbled it, not like mom prepared it but then right now what can he do? He accepted it and took a couple of pieces bit he really wasn't up to eatting anything right now but he leant over and gave the pony a small thank you lock before curling up and tried to sleep.

Fulutra and Dance arrived moments later and he opened up the door and they both ran in, upsetting Phantom who was on the other side and was just about to go I out it.

"SSorry father, please tell me, where are all my sisters? It is vital I know EXACTLY where they are or, maybe, you can just tell me which sister brought home a wolf recently."

"I dont know where all of them are but three aree upstairs, one is in the basement and the rest? I have no idea, sorry" he said as he left the house and Raven entered the room

Mother I am going to use your parlor" he said as he pushed past her before she objected and stopped on front of her cauldron and looked around for the ingredients before adding them and mumbling a spell and the water parted into sections reveling each sister in a separate section of the water. "Flut, here, which one was it?"

Flut had waited in the doorway but when she heard her name called she ran toward the room and looked into the cauldron and pointed at the one that took the wolf "it was that one" she said, knowing the blood coming from her eye anywhere, it was a rather distinctive look.

"That is Rapture" he said as he touched the water and it pulled up a picture of where Rapture was and it looked like a she'd of some sort but he knew where she was, the shed was new but the location wasn't "come on" he said as he opened a portal that lead straight to the depths of Nightmare Valley Forrest.

Flut followed and when she got there she looked around and noticed the shed and started running towards it when she was stopped.

"Wait, she may have protected the place" he said as he put her down and thew a stone at the shed and watched it disintegrate right in fro the of themm and then spoke the counter spell "now if is safe" he said as he walked overy and opened the door and caught his sister just as she was about to cut into the wolf. Stop! Don't touch a single hair on that wolf's head!"

Rapture looked up and smirked my big brothers come to play has he? Well it seems like I get to have some fun " she said as she the the knife down on the table and cast a bubble around him "keep struggling and you will suffocate" she saI'd as Date broke the spell.

"YYou know, Rapture, you pale in comparison to me, Lilith is the ONLY one in this family besides our mother who come close or best me in a fight, you will NEVER get to where we are and this jus proves it, your spells are weak and you care more about murder then studying magic so don't even try and win, you never will come close."

Rapture growled but he was right, she WAS good at murder and so she turned to a bunch of bottles and picked one up and uncorked it and mumbled a spell which had chains come up from the floor all around him and chained him to the floor which then she pounced and sat on him as she forced open his mouth and tipped yhe Conten tents inside then let him up. "Therr you go big brother, you will soo e d up the same way of the wolf" she said as she turned to the other female whilst he brother tried to get up but couldn't "nnow, what about you?"

"Leave her alone!" Date spluttered as a bit of blood came out of his mouth which he just spat out and then mumbled a spell to protect the unicorn "yyou can't penetrate that, you don't know the counter as I created it myself" he said as more blood came which he just spit o to the ground "give us the wolf or in my last ounce of strength I will send you back to mother killed"

"Empty threats big brother" she said as she picked up the knife again "enjoy death" she said as she made sure the ropes were tight before raising the knife.

Dante mumbled a spell and aimed a hoof at the wall of the shed, blowing it straight out, one more and he was done for, he could feel it, it was too much energy being used which made the poison work faster "try me, Rapture, just try me" he spluttered as he looked up to see a shocked Rapture.

Coven had been walking near by, looking for a plant, an ingredient she needed for a potion and appered soon after at the door "what's going on here!?" She asked as she walked in, noticing a scared and whimpering unicorn, Dante nearly dead (from the looks of things) and a slight sadistic looking Rapture "I should have known it was the Stoneheart family" she said as she mumbled a spell before Rapture could react and slammed her hard against the wall, forcing here there "try as you might, Rapture, you can not and will not be able to break free, I am stronger then you will ever be, you should have stayed in school." She said as she looked to Dante and smelt his breath "ugh! Poison, a special poision, one that isn't really ringing a bell for me, I need to take you to Harmonia, you need to be seen to by a healer" she said as she looked to the unicorn beside her "and you are protected, I can sense that, but I need Dante to break the protection spell and I don't think he has the energy to do so.

"I do, just wait" he said as he mumbled the counter curse and watched a yellow light go down over the unicorn "Flutura, you are safe now, you can take the wolf back home" he said as he coghed up a bit more blood "Dante, please, I can't leave you!" She said as she ran to him and knelt down beside him "please, let me come with you, I want to be by your side" she said as Dante shook his head "sorry, can't have that happen" he said weakly "I will be fine, I will come see how you are when I get better" he said as he kissed the top of her head "just take the mother and go, you got what you came for, Rapture will be dealt to, I will be fine, I swear, everything will be alright."

Flutura watched as a portal opened up, tears falling down her face and nodded "alright, I will go, I am so sorry for getting you involved in this, I promise to make it up to you somehow" she said as Dante smiled at her, he was going to object but he was too weak.

"I promise, I will take good care of him" Coven said as she levitated Rapture to her, still in the holding spell, and then walked through the portal levitating Dante also before opening one last portal "take the wolf and go through the portal, I may not know of you but I do know you are the pony that lives in the clearing in the middle of the woods right? I have heard talk of you when I have visited friends who know of the loner but kind pony who keeps to herself and is a sort of protector for the woods around Dream Valley" she said smiling at her "goodbye for now, I will keep in touch" she said as the portal closed behind her and the other two.

The unicorn got up, tears not stopping as she grabbed the knife and cut the ropes and then awkwardly put the wolf on her back and carefully walked toward the portal, her legs buckling a little due to the weight but she made it through just in time, the portal closing behind her and she collapsed under the weight, the wolf sliding off her back and onto the ground just as the portal closed and whilst she was pleased to be back she could do nothing but fall to the ground and cry, her 'father' was poisoned and it was all because of her, she was a horrible daughter and now he could die because of her, she was never going to forgive herself.

The unicorn looked away from the other, tears still falling down her face "it is none of your concern, thank you for taking care of the little one but you can leave now" she said as she started to get up but only fell down again due to stress, fatigue and worry over the little pup and now her father, she was in a right state and whilst crying made things worse she couldn't help it It. "Its something I have to deal with and something I don't think you want to be around for when...when...When I tell Raven, my herd leader, I nearly killed her son and got her daughter locked up, I need to do this myself but after I have dealt to the dead wolf beside me and her child" she said as she was starting to calm down a little, softly crying still.

The pup woke up at the sound of voices and yawned, stretched and walked over to others, stopping when he saw his mother and started to cry again as he settled down next to his mother, nudging her, hoping she would wake up but to no avail was that ever going to work as he was soon starting to find out.

Flut looked down at the pup and nuzzled him "it's going to be alright darling" she said as she forced herself to stop crying for the sake of the pup "I promise you wont be alone" she promised, leaning over and nuzzled the pup "I will do what I can to let you say a proper goodbye to your mother, I have my ways, but you will be able to say a proper goodbye" she said, wondering if there WAS a way to bring the wolf back, maybe Coven or one of those other magic ponies may have an idea? The unicorn looked at the other and decided to do the one thing she never thought she would ever do and call upon Raven, if anyone would know a resurrection potion it would be her. "Like I said, thank you for your help" she said looking at the male "but I have sweet talking to do to Raven and given how much trouble I am with Raven this isn't going to go well but maybe I can barter with her" she said as she took a deep breath and let it out.

the pegasus sighed "alright, take care of him, I need to go see if I can find some sort of relation or at least someone who may be able to help me, I did have Dante but he is now gone so I am going to have to see if I can find Sabbath, his daughter, the daughter who will hate my guts, Raven was surprised last time I showed up and Dante just pushed passed his mother but this time? Something tells me, she will blame me for killing her son...well, not exactly or at least I hope I didn't, but still..." she said trailing off, still hating herself for what happened to Dante but still, right now, the wolf was her main concern, Dante was now in safe hooves.

As the Pegasus summoned a few black butterflies to her she looked at them "can you please help me find Sabbath? Or some sort of relation to Dante? Maybe Requiem? I know he hangs around in the shadows, writing poetry and what not before heading to his job at the cemetery, he is like Dante, he has taken more after his grandfather, he would be perfect!" She said as the butterflies flew off "I will be back soon" she said as she nuzzled the pup and she ran after the butterflies.

The pegasus didn't care who she ran into but as long as they were a relation to Raven she was sure she would listen to her...at least she hoped so, she WAS the one who nearly killed her son and probably now thrown her daughter into jail,she was probably going to be killed by her upon seeing her but she knew she would be the only one who would be able to help because if she asked Coven or one of the good ponies who knew magic she would be shut down but she knew that the dead was ravens specialty and if the rumors were true then that mate of hers was best friends with the devil himself so he should be able to help as well.

Requiem had just finished a rather depressing poem about death and was looking it over when he came across a few black butterflies fluttering in front of him "have a death wish you little bugs?" He asked, unamused by their intrusion and then conjured up a book on how to talk to butterflies and then realized it would be easier just turning himself into one which he did easily. Hearing the butterflies out he nodded, made his stuff disappear and then went off in search of this Flutura or whatever her name was.

Flut had stopped and had been searching for Requiem around the shadows if the castle when a black butterfly, soon after she had started looking, was hovering In her face "hi, find anything?"

He butterfly was lucky, as a butterfly it was rather easy to find this woman, butterflies seemed to be drawn to her so it didn't take long to find her. Requiem transformed on front of her and smiled at her "apparently you wanted me" he said, sitting down in front of her.

"How good are you at talking to your parents? Because I need a HUGE favor and only you or one of your siblings will be able to help" she said as she explained to him what she wanted to do.

As the male listened he shook his head "once the dead have departed it is hard to get them back but mother may know a way with the help of father and his best friend but wanting to help you after you nearly killed their oldest son and sent their daughter to jail for a bit you may be pushing your luck."

The female sighed "I see you know about that already...." she said as he nodded "a tracking spell I have on all my family, I know where they are, what their doing and, if need be, if they are alive and well but I do have to give you credit, you took down to of my family members without even trying, I have to give you kudos for that". He's grinned at her as he opened up the portal "of course I will help, just let me do all the talking" he said as he allowed her to go through first and followed soon after, both walking out onto the front door of the family estate.

The girl swallowed, trying to make sure her nerves were noticeable as Requiem opened the door and walked in "mother, father, I would like to talk to you" he called as both parents came out if two different rooms and started walking toward their son, noticing this woman was one they were both not pleased to see.

"Req, darling, what is she doing here?" Do you know what she just did to your sister and brother? " raven asked as Requiem nodded.

"I know and it was bad but she wasn't to blame, it was your darling" he said as he rolled his eyes, not caring if his parents noticed or not, he never really did like this sister when she was one of her mothers favourites and a day didn't go by without them all knowing it "daughter but she needs our help as it was my sisters fault who killed a wolf who had a pup she just wanted the body back instead of it being turned into a fur coat or whatever she wanted to do with it. I know it is no excuse for what she has done but please, just hear her out and then you can talk punishment?" He said as Phantom turn ed to his mate and whispered in her ear of which they both nodded.

"Fine, we will do what she wishes, it will be easy enough but we will need the help of my sister as she can sense when spirits are around" she said as she looked at Requiem "go get your Aunt is in her room go get her please? She basket her son who took off to get her. "Now, you" Raven said as she glared at the woman in front of her "once this is all over you are going to to have to make it up to me and it won't be pretty" she said growling in a hushed voice as she saw the scared female back up.

"W...wait, Raven, how did you know what..." she stopped, remembering something that she was told to her by Dante ages ago, Raven had eyes and ears everywhere, it was her ignorance to have forgotten that.

Moments later the male was back with his aunt "so, you want me to track a spirit" she said as Raven nodded "you can't eat this spirit sis as it is a wild spirit which you don't like anyway but can you please go with the female and report back to me where the spirit and then we can go from there" she said as he sister nodded and grabbed hold of the female and made them both vanish and reappear in her clearing.

"Now, tell...hang on" Shadow looked around and ignoring the male that was there with a pup she noticed there was a spirit there also, a sad spirit that was attached to her body and watching over her sad child. "Well, that was easy" she said as she looked up "Raven, the spirit is here" she said She Raven appeared moments later.

Raven set to work, making a bag of stuff appear as she took stuff out of it, drew on the ground a magic circle, propped up some candles and lit them, sprinkled a herb mix in the circle then levitated the wolf and placed it in the middle of said circle. "Now, this should be fun for you my dear sister, go fetch a pony, a pony sacrifice is needed" she said as she looked go the male "unless you want that pup to see what is about to happen I suggest you take him away."

"Wait! I don't want another living to..." she never could finish her objection before Raven interrupted.

"Do you want this wolf to get his mother back to do you want to tell him he will never ever see her again?"

The butterfly summoner stopped and bit her lip, thankful the pup was asleep and not paying any attention to what was going on and sighed "I want his mother back, of course, but surely there is another way..."

"There is another way, another three ways to be exact, but two of those times take time to construct everything that is needed and the other is a hit and miss, one that works sometimes and other times it does not, a spell that most dark witches and wizards in my home Realm, ignore because of said reason, no one can be stuffed to figure out what that reason is and since other spells have been built upon it it is now ignored since those spells are better. So, unless you have another idea then please, by all means, tell me because other then me, who else are you going to turn to? Others from my world who live here won't touch resurrection spells because they find them unholy and wrong and believe that once a being dies then that is it, it is dead, they won't bring it back for all anything, you are luck I don't care about rules and regulations and what should and should not be touched etc so I am your best bet."

The woman sighed and nodded "fine, but at least put the poor thing out before you kill them, I am sure you like some sick twisted fun when it comes to killing others but, for my sake, please at least knock him or her out first, it is the least you can do."

Raven nodded but sighed 'sure, of course I will, I don't like to but, for you, I will, it will just be added to your 'payment' she said as she smirked at the other.

Requiem appeared moments later and looked at his mother "I just saw the pony that Shadow has chosen and I must say, you will be rather impressed with who she picked, that debt you were owed by him will now be paid" he smirked as his mother grinned in a scary, sadistic, evil way.

Raven looked at the female "you are in luck, this latest request of yours will not be added to your debt, Shadow had the brains to pick a thorn that has been in our side for a while now" she said as she awaited her sisters return.